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Episode Detail: When Aunt Lena Did the Rhumba - Reading Rainbow

Lucie Arnaz reads Eileen Kurtis-Kleinman's "When Aunt Lena Did the Rhumba," about a girl who takes her injured aunt---a dancer---to a matinee. Also: "The Old Man Who Loved to Sing"; and "My Mama Had a Dancing Heart."

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Premiered: 1983, on PBS
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