She Announced My Replacement at the Ballet. Then the Curtain Rose on Her Ruin.

with moonlight.

Onstage, the swans moved like ghosts through blue fog.

I sat in the center of Row A, Seat 12.

Graham sat four seats away with Celeste beside him in my former chair.

He had given her my seat.

That should have hurt more than it did.

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