Right after I settled in on the elliptical machine, a religious woman got onto the machine next to me. Just as I had done, she pulled out her headphones, arranged her magazine, and adjusted the volume on her iPod. But then she departed from my routine, pulling off her long skirt to start pedaling in bike shorts. When the movie we were both watching veered into a passionate kiss between two women, she changed the channel. She finished her workout watching MTV's "Cribs."
The woman working the front desk asked my friend and me where we were from. "From New York, and also Florida before that," Shira answered. The woman's mother is from Miami and her father is from New York City. "That explains why your English is so good," Shira said.
"That, and we lived in Los Angeles for four years," the young woman answered, her shoulders tan and buff under her tank top. "My father was on schlichus. He's into things like that."
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