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She signed up for an adaptive dance class on impulse and met Mara—the instructor with cropped hair and a laugh that clipped the air into little bright fragments. Mara didn’t see Natalie’s missing limb first. She counted the spaces where movement wanted to go and then reached for them. “We’ll begin standing,” she said, voice level and ordinary. “If you prefer seated, we’ll move from there. We’ll build what we can.”

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Natalie admits to suicidal ideation during this period. She withdrew from her friends, broke up with her long-term boyfriend (telling him, "You didn't sign up for this"), and stopped eating. Her mother eventually moved into her studio apartment to monitor her. She signed up for an adaptive dance class