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I guess I must have been in fourth grade, when two of my friends and I decided to choreograph a dance routine for the school talent show. After some debate, we chose the song "The Stroke," by Billy Squier, which my sister Angela had on a compilation tape.

We all thought that the song was about rowing, and came up with a dance routine where... well... we simulated rowing. It wasn't very sophisticated.

At any rate, after a few days of practicing in the music room after school, our hopes of shining at the talent show were completely dashed when Sister Donna, our principal, told us that we would not be allowed to use that song, as it was inappropriate.

I was baffled, and embarassed. I don't know whether I was more embarassed to have chosen an inappropriate song or because I could not for the life of me figure out what was so dirty about it. Was rowing dirty? Was the pretend rowing gesture we were doing dirty?

At any rate our dreams of revealing ourselves as on par with the Solid Gold Dancers evaporated instantly. I ended up reciting a poem instead. Jenny and Cherry may have dropped out altogether. Stuart Ruddy fared well singing a Peace Corps parody song, and Antony Hjscinski astounded us by playing the accordion.

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catholic school , impropriety , humiliated , confused , jenny bloom , cherry rieseberg , holy rosary , embarassment , talent show