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It was just another skate night until a special new skater showed up. Virginia, who had moved to Detroit with her Husband and 2 and a half year old daughter Teresa 3 weeks prior to this skate, read about us in the paper and decide to give it a try. Her husband could not make it so she came alone with Teresa in the stroller ready to skate. That night the group decide to go to grosse pointe, one of the harder longer skates we do. So without any idea of what she was getting into Virginia sets off onto the streets of Detroit pushing her baby. After a few thousand feet it was apparent that she was never going to keep up, so the one and only Cooper took over the baby stroller pushing chore. What a site seeing Cooper in a skirt and one Solomon 5 wheel skate and one low cut quad racing skate pushing a complete strangers baby all the way to Grosse Pointe. On the way back Cooper was getting tired so I got behind and pushed them up a long bridge. It was so fun to do this that on the final 2 mile run home on Larnard I got behind and pushed them to the front of the pack and before long we were leading the skate while Teresa was laughing and cooing about the lights of the Ren Center, totally oblivious to the speeds we were reaching. When Virginia finally got up to us back at the Detroiter she was thanking us for the help and saying what a great time she had. When I got home that night and reflected back on what Cooper and I did I started realizing how crazy that was to do. It seemed so safe in the moment, but what if we had gone down at those speeds, who knows what would have happened, especially with Cooper on a stone and stick catching quad skate. I appreciate Coopers skating skills more now after that experience. Virginia must have had the same realization to the safety issues of what she did because they have yet to come back.
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