Stephanie Selby, 'A Very Young Dancer', who inspired many, dies at 56

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6. Sad, troubling story

Too often children pushed or pushing themselves into these realms of high performance end up with 'demons' when reaching adulthood. Despite the early gifts, the extraordinary physical attributes, they're often eaten up as kids by adult-sized ambitions, emotional stress, jealousies of the particular 'world' they enter. And then, callously tossed aside once their youth is spent, their dreams turned to ash.

This is one of those stories.