The Skating Career

« All of my life prior to that time, I had wanted to be an ice skater. I worked so hard too, with the figure skating. My parents did not have enough money to send me to classes so I would go and watch my friends when they took their classes. There were lakes all over Minneapolis where I grew up, so I would practice out there. Then I had to have an operation on my foot (...) The following year, I had to have another operation, and so my skating career rather went by the boards. »