George Balanchine, the great choreographer and cofounder of New York City Ballet, who arrived in the United States in 1933, almost always had a girlfriend—often a few.1 His first American girlfriend, Holly Howard, apparently had four or five abortions in their first year together. Is it possible to get pregnant four or five times in […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/06/08/the-real-world-is-not-here-george-balanchine-joan-acocella/