The Ballerina - Meza, Daniel M.
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Tragedy strikes out at Jan Marie at the young age of two, taking her father away who adored her in a cold and rainy night car accident. He was on his way home after buying her a very special birthday gift. It was a beautiful Ballerina doll. In the accident the doll was lost, it had disappeared. Jan Marie's devoted mother having made a promise to Jan Marie's father on his dying bed to provide his daughter with the finest education possible, works long hours at different jobs having enrolled her in an exclusive, expensive private school. The rich upper-class students at the school noting that…mehr

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Tragedy strikes out at Jan Marie at the young age of two, taking her father away who adored her in a cold and rainy night car accident. He was on his way home after buying her a very special birthday gift. It was a beautiful Ballerina doll. In the accident the doll was lost, it had disappeared. Jan Marie's devoted mother having made a promise to Jan Marie's father on his dying bed to provide his daughter with the finest education possible, works long hours at different jobs having enrolled her in an exclusive, expensive private school. The rich upper-class students at the school noting that Jan Marie did not dress to their level avoided her, and were deliberately rude toward her. One day, lonely twelve year old Jan Marie on her way home from school, decided to walk through an older section of town, and down a street she had never gone through before. As she walked, Jan Marie quickly noticed that the buildings, even the cars parked on the street all looked very old, giving her a strange feeling that she was walking into a street that belonged to a time long past. Then, stopping in front of a toy store window, she felt strongly and mysteriously drawn to a beautiful Ballerina doll prominently displayed. And noting that the doll appeared to be kindly looking straight down at her, this captivating look immediately won her lonely heart, and a relationship began that would change her life forever.
Autorenporträt
I've always been a dreamer driven by an imaginative mind. Even as a child I would spend long periods of time thinking about the future, trying to visualize what would be awaiting me there. Being the eldest child in my family, and raised by my mother because of an absent father, I enjoyed teasing my mother, telling her funny stories to make her laugh, and sometimes trying to scare her, like putting her lipstick on my face, pretending I had been injured falling down some stairs, just to get her reaction. We lived in a low rent housing project in Los Angeles. My mom was always a wonderful listener, laughed at my jokes even if she heard them before, and a great "straight man" pretending she had really fallen for my pranks. My mom was also a dreamer, in love with movie stars, and always awaiting for her Knight in Shining Armor to arrive. I began making up stories to tell my own children at night before they went to sleep and the practice continues to this day with my grandchildren. Mostly, I tell them funny stories, some filled with fantasy, but their favorite and most requested stories are my "spooky" ones told to them with the lights very dim. I've had wonderful careers and have a Masters Degree in Business. And now, I share with you, my most requested story by both children and adults, "The Ballerina."