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ONE OF THEM

WHEN YOU ARE BORN in New Jersey in the dead of winter, taken home from the hospital by two people anxiously awaiting your arrival so they can move their new family of three to Colorado before the next snow storm, you become a skier.

When you stuff pudgy feet into plastic rear-entry boots, making wedge turns in the yard before your third birthday, go to sleep in your long-johns, wake

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