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Anyone else? This book has been driving me nuts! I remembered a little more. I'm pretty sure the ballet teacher or the student gives a big no and then the first chapter or prologue ends. I was so freaked out by this first part I put the book back on the shelf.
If it weren't for the bit about the dancer I would have said "Deprivers" by Steven-Elliot Altman. The opening in that one is about an assassin though. It's about special people who can deprive others of one specific sense.
It might have been from the anthology "The touch: epidemic of the millennium" collected by the same author. That's filled with 20 case studies of sufferers of The Touch written by a number of different authors.
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Thank you! The touch: epidemic of the millennium is the book I have been trying to remember.
A science fiction that I read the back-cover of about of the book six or seven years ago. I remember that a character was a dancer, probably ballerina. There was a disease/virus/ability that causes one person to take away a sense from another person. The opening scene was a dance teacher helping a student and the student starts screaming that she can't feel her leg or some other part of her anatomy. The teacher took away her sense of touch. I'm pretty sure the teacher faced being locked-up or killed, because the ability to take away a sense from someone is such a threat. That's all I remember.
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