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Anti-masker at the skating trail.

One of the precious bright spots for our family in this long, dark winter of COVID has been

outdoor skating.

Other than the walking trails, it's the only amenity that the city has kept open.

So I take our boys, they're four years old and eight years old, while my partner is working.

The older one has developed a speed skater's stride.

He's not crossing over yet as he turns, but he's close to it.

The younger one has amazed us all with learning to glide easily, and this is his first winter

on skates.

This story happens in Toronto, but I'm not going to say where, because I don't want the

guy I'll be talking about to be identifiable.

I don't want this to be shaming.

I'll change some of the details too.

But I also don't want to name the place because shockingly, it's never crowded.

We're privileged enough to be homeschooling through the school closures.

We're both self-employed and we can trade off between the home office and childcare.

The boys don't have to be on Zoom all day, and that's really lucky because I know there's

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