Sword Class NYC met in a basement. I arrived on a Tuesday evening with my Groupon for “Longsword for Beginners,” after rereading A Song of Ice and Fire. Inspired by George R.R. Martin’s tiny assassin Arya Stark, I wanted to participate in a montage of nonstop, meditative fencing, to be an older, hotter version of the underestimated child–anything to give me a sense of power while I faced weekly rejection.

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