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I was in a huge studio that was very full of people on mats doing yoga. I was one of them. The room was dark, and the instructor was a tall, thin African-American man who would alternately sing a phrase or talk in front of a projection screen that was playing a movie, while the rest of us were on the floor in different poses. Melanie was next to me. I got very close and affectionate with the woman on the other side of me, who had white-blond hair and nestled in close.