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When my daughter turned 1, we took her ice skating for her party.
Being slightly unexperienced, she took it upon herself to try a maneuver that was completely beyond her skill level.
It was between a clean axel and her attempt at a salchow that she spun down onto the ice with such spin that her left skate flew off, ripping across the neck of an elderly man eating an ice cream at the edge of the rink.
The loss of blood was volumnous and immediate.
Fortunately, she was young enough that the episode should hopefully be but a cloudy dream in her later years.
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