I Wanted To Learn How To Skate

You See The Fairy Tale - Four Minutes Of Glory At The Olympics. I Thought My Life Would Be Cake After That.

I Worked As Hard As I Could. I Was Always The First One On The Ice, And The Last One Off.

If I'm On Skates, I Feel At Home No Matter What I'm Doing. If They Wanted Me To Sing And Dance I Think I Could Do It Just Becausei Was On Skates. When I'm Not On Skates, Though, I Feel Very Strange.

I Always Had The Sense That Nothing Was Never Good Enough - Striving For Perfection. My Mother And I Had A Sort Of Typical Mother-daughter Relationship.

I Was Passionate. I Found Something That I Loved. I Could Be All Alone In A Big Old Skating Rink And Nobody Could Get Near Me And I Didn't Have To Talk To Anybody Because Of My Shyness. It Was Great. I Was In My Fantasy World.