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{{abstract|We sometimes walked around the streets of Brooklyn on cold winter days, carrying our ice skates and trying to find a tennis court that was flooded and frozen over. I remember nothing ever seemed to get frozen except our feet. A couple of years later, when he wanted to learn ballroom dancing, he got a book that diagrammed the fox trot and other dance steps with pictures of the feet, and we practiced together. I learned to dance. I’m afraid he didn’t. }}
{{Byline|last=Wasserman|first=Barbara Mailer|abstract=We sometimes walked around the streets of Brooklyn on cold winter days, carrying our ice skates and trying to find a tennis court that was flooded and frozen over. I remember nothing ever seemed to get frozen except our feet. A couple of years later, when he wanted to learn ballroom dancing, he got a book that diagrammed the fox trot and other dance steps with pictures of the feet, and we practiced together. I learned to dance. I’m afraid he didn’t.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr07wass}}
 
 
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About twenty-five years ago at a dinner party, I was asked by the man sitting next to me, “What was it like growing up as Norman Mailer’s sister?”
About twenty-five years ago at a dinner party, I was asked by the man sitting next to me, “What was it like growing up as Norman Mailer’s sister?”
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