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Certain alterable features of his appearance make him look insincere, untrustworthy and unlikable: He bares his lower teeth when he speaks and rarely smiles, which makes him look threatening.

But he also said that what was not alterable was “our values,” suggesting that rules such as the one mandating the hijab would not be changed.

But he also said that what was not alterable was “our values,” suggesting that rules such as the one mandating the hijab would not be changed.

Through Robinson’s fervor for truth, Emily and Sarah Kunstler’s “Who We Are” chronicles how such heartaches, when observed on a personal level, remind us how knowing the unchangeable past can still improve the alterable future for the better.

Not only did the shop need to build dozens of costumes for older, taller dancers — some the size of professionals in the corps de ballet — it needed to create outfits that could be easily alterable back down to their smaller, pint-size forms.