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If you follow figure skating at all, you may know that Thanksgiving weekend was the weekend of Skate America, the last of the Grand Prix series of competitions (besides the Final, which is next week).

 

One of the things that happened at Skate America was that the Israeli skater Daniel Samohin fell, dislocated his shoulder, and had to withdraw. Not unprecedented, but a shame, he’s a good skater, and attractive to look at, though I must admit to being biased in the favor of a fellow Russian-American-Jew. 

 

Unfortunately for me, at the time that he fell, I was watching the competition with a bunch of teenagers. “How does he look so pretty when he’s crying?!” said one fifteen-year-old.

 

“That’s exactly when-” 

 

-and then my brain-to-mouth filter abruptly re-engaged. 

 

And then they harassed me until I finished the sentence.

 

And that is the story of how I told 6 teenagers with an average age of fifteen that boys are especially pretty when they are in pain and crying. Oops.

#'someone has a kink' they said#'you have no idea'#I thought