Parents used to fear their kids running away to the circus, but today, in some cities, they drive their kids to circus school. Marge Ostroushko has been taking her daughter, Anna, for classes at St. Paul’s Circus Juventas since Anna was ten. Now she watches as Anna hangs in mid-air off a boy’s feet — by the tops of her own feet.
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