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Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008, 7:42 p.m. -Mary Kate Zimmerman, 12, at right, practices Irish Step Dance in the basement of her Naperville home while her mom, Debbie, and sister Elizabeth, 6, watch. Mary Kate has been dancing for five years and studies at McNulty School of Irish Dance, which has schools around the Chicago area.

Mary Kate not only loves to dance but says she also loves making

friends in the dance community. Here she is preparing her slip jig

and treble jig for a competition that was in Milwaukee on Sunday.

Mary Kate: "It's Irish Dance and there's a folk

tale that when England had control of Ireland they outlawed dancing.

If they saw you dancing you would get in a lot of ...

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