CINCINNATI — Sandra Bradley pulls out her phone and leans forward. She’s sitting in the basement of a library in Walnut Hills when a smile spreads across her face.

In a room down the hall, her 6-year-old daughter sits against the wall. The child begs to come to ballet class even when she’s not feeling well. She reads a book while other kids run across the room, jumping over small dots on the ground.

Bradley told me they tried another ballet class first. But it was too complicated.

Rond de jambe. Arabesque. Port de bras.

“It’s like another language,” Bradley said.

Then, they tried this one — a free program at the Walnut Hills library that provides kids with shoes, leotards and books.

“She loved it,” Bradley said. “Oh my God, I’m going to start crying.”

This is the fifth week of an

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