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Yet at the end it was the most rewarding. >> why is dance so good at bringing people together? >> when you touch someone, something happens, and in ballroom dancing, the dance holder, the dance frame is known as the embrace hold so if you are in an embrace hold with someone, how can you hate each other after a while? and so at the very, very beginning it was very awkward. they were all having their sleeves like this, but we have this here in the states as well but eventually i have my ways and means, i hit people with my tie, which is a dance blessing i call it, and we have a lot of fun, and e...

This year's paralympic games. which is harder, the competition for one of those medals in sochi or the competition for the mirror ball? >> gosh, they're both so challenging. >> reporter: they don't make prosthetic limbs for ballet or ballroom dancing. purdy has had to improvise. >> we really wanted these beautiful lines, like a ballerina. i went with the swimming foot that isn't even made for dancing. it's made for swimming so you can put a flipper on. but we found i could stand up on them, balance on them, and get the lines that we wanted. >> reporter: the choreography, not just playing to he...

And herbson, for all the talk about tamerlan being so isolated and not having any american friends, let's remember that he married an american girl named katie from the suburbs of providence, rhode island. so not everything there squares. >> we've talked to a number of people who have said everything is not square. chris, i appreciate the update. more ahead on my interview with a young dance instructor. dance will not be stopped by what she lost in the bombing. doctors had to amputate her leg several inches below her knee. but she says she is not giving up. >> i look at this as someone trained...

Again though. >> i am. >> what's your favorite dance? >> that's hard to say. that's like saying what your favorite song is. it's like on sunday mornings i want like a waltz or a fox trot or something slower, but saturday nights i want a cha cha or mambo. depends. i do them all. >> what's the first dance you want to do? >> one of the tougher ones. it's fast and beautiful and it's wonderful dance. >> how are you coping with this new reality? >> you know, it's minute-by-minute. overall i'm excited for the challenge. i look at this as someone trying to stop me from realizing my dreams. and i thoug...

>> it's minute-by-minute. overall, i look at the challenge as someone trained to stop me from realizing my dreams. i thought that ballroom dancing was something i was never going to do. it seems like a tough arena to be in. and i've conquered that. i'm not ready to stop. i feel reich someone has come in and said i'm not going to let you do that anymore. i have moments where i just get angry and mad that someone did this to me and someone did this to adam. and i won't be able to have the same that i had before. i get angry. i definitely get angry.