2:10-year-olds. stretching, stressing. >> it's very disciplined. >> an athletic discipline of concentration and body control. learning poise under pressure. >> it took a lot. especially when we were young. to stick with it. but it was worth it. >> a ballet academy in upstate new york was where amina raj got to know her friend karrie neurauter. >> i met karrie when she was 8. she was very sweet, very bubbly personality. >> both of them were girly girls, but wanted to grow up to be like their dads. >> our dads were both engineers. so we were both going to become engineers. and be professional ballerinas on the side. >> and everyone could see that karrie was very close to her dad, lloyd neurauter. every saturday he'd not only drive his daughter to class in corning, new york. he'd stay to help out. >> he was the only father there that was bringing the kids in the morning at that time. >> mena's mom, cynthia, would see him on those saturdays but rarely his wife. >> instead of doing the