Third Girl from the Left a memoir

A Chorus Line dancer tracks her evolution from determined small town girl to established artist, living her long-held dream of working on Broadway. But as the AIDS epidemic begins its insidious journey through her worlds—both personal and professional—she must reconcile her career ambitions with her love for those closest to her. As a middle child in a large military family, Christine just wants to dance. Her parents support her dreams, even if they seem beyond their comprehension. At 20, determined and talented, Christine heads across the country from Santa Fe to New York City and, in a made for-Hollywood story, is chosen for the London cast of A Chorus Line. While unwilling to fully cut ties with the traditional life her parents envision for her, she finds a new family with the dancers and more fluid, open characters that fill the theater world in London, and later New York, in the ‘70s & ‘80s. Christine learns that one member of her family is equally at home in her new world: