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spangled bodysuit and standing on the back of a elephant. Finally,

the ringmaster called for complete quite for the dangerous trapeze
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act, performed without a net. No one in the audience seemed to
breath as the trapeze artists, a man and a woman, began to swing in
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wider and wider arcs above the heads of the audience. The woman

launched herself into the air, were she seemed to hang suspended,
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arms outstretched for her partner. Then, with a smack that I could

hear in the hushed air, they firmly caught one another buy the
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wrists. As I left the circus that day, I remember telling my
parents that I wanted to go their again soon.