Joker (Claire)

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"Are you afraid of becoming insane? What is wrong with insane? We live it everyday in our own minds."
~Ali Bartone

I grinned and twirled around my small, white room with careful balance. I heard the nurse watching us tell me to sit down and rest, but I don't listen. I don't like her. She is very mean. She keeps trying to make me give up being a ballerina.

Before my mother and father died, they would take me to dance lessons every week. Mother would always film me. She knew I would be a star.

The nurse grabbed my arm and forced me down onto the bed.

"Stay still. Stay seated."

"I don't want to!"

"I don't care."

I stared out the window and pretended I was dancing. I am dancing.

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