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  "textContent": "\"Are you ready to have some fun?” Dottie, the 83-year-old skating instructor, asked Ann MacDonald during her first ice skating lesson. \"I wasn’t,\" MacDonald writes. \"I was ready to flee. Now, two years later, I’m glad I stayed.\"",
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