Mary Collins Steps Up ; the Wife of the Erie County Executive Is Finding Her Own Voice and Loving It
Buffalo News › August 23, 2010
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Two o'clock on a sultry August afternoon, and Mary Collins is dancing.
Backward lunge, turn of the calf, thrust of the hip. Rosemary Clooney purrs "Why Don't You Do Right?" over the stereo. Swing is difficult -- even though Vladimir Kosarev, Collins' Russian dance instructor, tells her that new moves always feel strange at first.See the full content of this document
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Mary Collins Steps Up ; the Wife of the Erie County Executive Is Finding Her Own Voice and Loving It
Gliding on the 3-inch heels of her bronze satin dancing sandals, Collins' size-2 frame looks lithe and muscled in a black slip dress. Diamond-studded hoop earrings and a gem-crusted fleur-de-lis pendant gleam as she bends and twists with the beat.
On the surface, Collins is the picture of a woman who tries to look good, and succeeds.Today, though, her attention is not on her appearance. It is on the dance."Mary is a natural," said Kosarev, when the music spins to a stop inside the Fred Ast...See the full content of this document
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