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PAGE 32 . washroom may. t1ermqer, 7.1“. this country where she was a guest. Like many CanaAarts, Connelly had tmtdge with extreme heat and humidity. "My brain is bolllng insidemyhead 'ittirhkmgingNtgsnow." She came to understand that solitude and isoldon are not universal. when she finally persuaded the verypublicteiooeirtthelktoorstoretoek, she reached her boyfriend in Canada only to find thathehadmovedinwithaoah-wt.Orted her Thai "fathers" advised her in her grief: ”Don't think. First it will give you headache, then it will make you old." People surrounded her, cwiorted her until she could smile again. . Connelly" amusement Was almost always at her own expense, especially when the little girls in her school quizzed her about why her nose is sharp, or why her breasts are large (it must be from eating bread). She often felt awkward and conspicuous. Starlight Wining-9.21) ThenaturalgraceetheThaimAe.srptdeN cUsspure hell.enaorteaitorilu&*Btylyt tmaqimsartemxmous xugte3titheninieddlo periAhisisKamoteamingcussical1h.aide. Therewanis,thoi_ottdeN,att2mrteq 'eamedanaherw torvingartdeatieede ';;s"J'v"e.allt'llrTuT, began to mainland herself Sometimes when a small miracle allows me to move all my parts in time . q . I haven't accom- plished a routine, a dance, at all. I've said a mo‘ess This book is arranged in diary entries, from August 21,1986 to August 18, 1987.lt is therefore possible oreadalittleoFakxatatime,butitisidif6cuk to stop reading. Who wouldn't be delighted, as Karen Connelly was, to learn that all like began as starlight? BERKLEY DIGITAL WEIGHT SCALE (50 lb.) ' ' (195 ‘39 10 Wyman Road Hun: WATERLOO, ONT. I‘m-TM 10" “ma Wed.-Fri. 'IO eon-un- Ml. on King a Saturday t 745-2350 Mmm' A RAINBOW SPORTS I