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I agree.5-19-55 P.9 and Maria bet again and again- again and again they lose* One by one, their followers drift away, until finally they are alone. The dinner party is .dismal. Oh, Chuck and Maria assure each other that this doesn't make any difference - they still love each other. But the enchantment is gone - they are back in a world of reality. How Pierre has his chance, lie speaks to Maria gently, regretfully, of how important it is for a ballerina to focus com- pletely on lior work ?╟÷ how difficult it.would be to be married to a man who didn't understand that work, didn't fit in with her professional life. Chuck doesn't need anyone.to work on him - his own common sense is?'enough. What, actually, do they really have in common - he and Maria? By the night of Maria's opening, they are finished, these two. Unhappy about it - still in love - but finished. Chuck goes to the opening with the feeling that '..this is jgoodbye. But as he watches her dance, he can't ||tand it. And'as she finishes dancing, and listens to the applause, she knows that it is no longer'enough. They rush tq;each other. The magic that brought them together is like a fairy godmother. And that's'what a fairy godmother is supposed to do - bring-people together. She's not supposed to hang around holding-their hands ;for" fife; rest of their lives - where they go from there is up to them. Magic or no magic, they'redoing?╟╓ to;,d?? just what they planned, Maria tells Chuck, Six months on the ranch, six months of ballet. But one thing is certain - he's never going to gamble again as long as he. lives! If he does, it's' a'sure: thing that he'll lose. Be- cause finding 'each other and falling in, love is all the luck they' entitled to, is enough for ono lifetime- who has a right to expect anything else? And from this,we go into our finale, EUD re