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    What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Skier

    Oct 19, 2018 3 minutes
    By Kimberly Beekman
    “When it came to parenting, I felt equipped to handle many difficult scenarios—“Mom, I’m a pyromaniac,”
    “Mom, I’m a vegetarian,” “Mom, I hate Bruce Springsteen”—but the one I was utterly unprepared for was exactly what I got: “Mom, I am not a skier.”

    Somewhere along the way, John Irving got ahold of the plot line for my life. My plan was to move to a ski town, get married, buy a car that made both left and right turns, and spend my middle age

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