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The Boston skating community hosts the world championships even as it mourns plane crash victims

The Boston skating community hosts the world championships even as it mourns plane crash victims

Washington Post25-03-2025

NORWOOD, Mass. — The chairs where Jinna Han and Spencer Lane used to sit are still there, and covered with gifts: cards and cookies, plants and pictures — anything that might have sparked a connection for their friends and fellow skaters.
Photographs, drawings, a South Korean flag, hearts cut from construction paper or bent out of pipe cleaners and so many stuffed animals that they are in danger of spilling off the white plastic folding chairs just like all of the others in the hallway outside the main rink at the Skating Club of Boston.

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