Fondu with extra melt

So we’re at the barre,
And Smirnoff is messing around with his cd’s, taking one out, putting a new one in.
New music for the fondu series,
He presses play and there’s a kind of elaborate and frilly piano intro, so we all do a big emotional arm preparation,
And then the fondus: one regular, one with a relevé, to the front, side, back, side again, lots of drama in the music, makes it a very yearning kind of fondu, then we whirl around and wait in fifth while he stops the cd and replays the same track, but before he presses play this time he says to me,
“My Dear. This is the music you gave me. From my mother.”
Wha!
Gentle Reader, I am so thrilled. Thrilled!
I guess while I was gone someone got ahold of the iPod and burned him some cd’s, which is kind of a roundabout way to do it, but whatever, yay! He is actually using the music! The music that was completely inaccessible in those old reel-to-reels, he’s actually using it!
So when he said that, I totally fell out of my preparatory arms fifth position ballet posture and totally melted into a huge goofy smile and just said something dorky like, “I’m so glad!” and then he said, “Yes” and then pressed play and fundu means To Melt and these were the melty-est fondus of all time.

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