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      <h1>Dancing the Shag & Two Left Feet</h1>
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        Not all of my posts are huge, and they probably shouldn't be. Amy and I
        had a really great time yesterday at Two Left Feet Dance Studio,
        learning more about how to dance the Carolina Shag in preparation for
        our wedding (which is in less than 20 days)! An enormous swing band is
        going to play all of our favorites from the brass band/swing era, and
        one of the easiest dances to do to that music is the Shag. I wrote a
        paper on the Shag a few years ago for school but never actually learned
        how to do it. The steps are simple for us to remember and it's easy
        enough to add flair or mix it up so we look like we know what we're
        doing during our first dance.
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        We also got out to see the new Lion King remake and I can honestly say
        it was worth it. If anyone's a Lion King purist, it's Amy. It's easily
        been her favorite movie since she was a toddler, and to see it
        tastefully redone almost 25 years after it was first released was
        thoroughly enjoyable. There were minor alterations to literal sentences
        in the script that all added some context to things that were always
        kind of assumed in the original (clarification on Scar's backstory,
        etc.). I did however feel like they were trying to throw Beyonce lines
        the way a middle-schooler tries to turn a 500-word paper into a 700-word
        paper. Regardless, it's definitely re-living the classic, not re-hashing
        it.
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