As my children, kate and Alex, wobbled on skates to the rink and gingerly climbed onto the ice for the first time last January, my heart raced. "Whatever, you do," I whispered, "don't fall down." "Yeah, Mom, right," they said in unison, staring at me and my husband, Chris, like we were crazy. Then they teetered off, staccato-stepping across the ice as stronger, faster skaters swerved past them.
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