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"i had to pack these brand-new ice skates my mother had practically just sent me a couple of days before. that depressed me. i could see my mother going in spaulding's and asking the salesman a million dopy questions--and here i was getting the ax again. it made me feel pretty sad. she bought me the wrong kind of skates--i wanted racing skates and she bought hockey--but it made me sad anyway."