Julie Moncrief spent four wonderful months studying at Santa Reparata in Florence. She has now returned to the United States and will graduate from the University of Tulsa in May, 2008.
I could have twirled for hours. I was wearing my favorite skirt, the one that spread out in a perfect circle from my waist when I spun around. It was powder blue cotton and I had picked it out myself. I wanted to be a dancer. That skirt was about