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‘Smooth Goddess’ brings roller skating classes to studio setting. ‘The world is diverse, and I feel like my class represents that.’

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Kari Anne Bakker, of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, stretches with others while taking an intermediate/advanced roller skating class with teacher Myesha McCaskill. Bakker was traveling to the U.S. for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic to visit roller skating communities in Chicago, New York and Atlanta. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)

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