She remembered that as a child, she loved to swim. So she went to the local pool on a Sunday morning. She was terrified of being seen in a swimsuit. But the water didn't care about her belly rolls. It held her. She did gentle laps, not for calories burned, but for the joy of stretching her limbs and feeling the cool glide on her skin. She started calling it “dancing with gravity.” She found a salsa class for “all bodies and abilities,” where the instructor, a man with a large belly and graceful feet, taught that rhythm lives in your hips, not in your size.
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