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green jumpsuit was particularly skilled, but it wasn't Audrey's rhythm.
Several other women were also good at that style of dancing, but Jerry ruled
out each one of them. There was nothing of Audrey that he recognized. It was
hopeless, he finally decided.

"Do you want to try a dance?" Jerry said, to Dana before he gulped the last
of his wine.

"I don't think I can handle this music," she answered.

Jerry told Dana to sit tight. He went over to the deejay booth and talked to
the pimple-faced kid.. He returned smiling.

"The next song is ours," he told Dana

"Oh, no, you didn't pay that boy anything, did you?"

"Just a little," he said, chuckling. "What's a few dollars once ever, twenty
years or so?"

After a few minutes, the ozone song faded out and was replaced by a familiar
melody: Billy Joel singing "Just the Way You Are." Dana's face lit up with
recognition.

"Hey I remember this one!" she said.

"Care to dance to it?"

"All right, why not? " she said, rising from her seat.

Most of the young people were streaming off the dance floor, sitting out the
slow music, which left Jerry and Dana plenty of room. The remaining dancers,
unfamiliar with the old song but unwilling to give up the floor, continued
dancing the ozone steps, determined to wait out the strange music.

Jerry took Dana's hand and began to dance. Fearing that he'd steer into a
collision with the gyrating dancers, he kept them moving about a small patch
of the floor, away from the others. Jerry was careful not to step on Dana's
toes, and they quickly fell into the rhythm. The young dancers gave them
plenty of room, and several of them stopped moving long enough to watch the
two of them dance in the old style.

"I'm beginning to feel really self-conscious," Dana said. "People are looking
at us."

"Let 'em look," Jerry said, giddv with the wine and the moment. "Let's show
them how civilized adults dance."

Dana and Jerry looked into each other's eyes, their feet moved, and the rest
of the dancers in the room faded away.