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That went wrong: ‘Halfway through the route I found out that my daughter had fallen off the sled’

Douwe (38), married to Femke (31), father of 3 children aged 10, 7 and 0.

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“On a beautiful cold winter day I wanted to skate from our Frisian hometown to Dokkum. Our daughter Aukje, who was four years old at the time, wanted to join us on the sled. My wife Femke didn’t like it at first, but hey, what could happen? I put Aukje on a thick ski suit and put her on the sled that I was going to pull. Very nice, together. I urged her to hold the sledge. She was not afraid at all, had great fun on the back and kept shouting, “Louder!”

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Empty sled

I needed all my concentration to skate and did not notice that it had been quiet for a while and that my ‘pack’ had become a lot lighter. It wasn’t until I passed someone who shouted, “Hey, are you out with an empty sled?” I saw that my daughter was no longer on it. I was frightened to death. Immediately I turned to look for her. I had to go back a kilometer, the longest meters of my life.

Finally I saw her sitting in a mountain of snow. Aukje calmly told how she had fallen off the sled: she had let go for a while and was
then flew off it, and landed exactly in a lump of snow. Before she recovered from the shock, I had already turned the corner. Fortunately she hadn’t panicked, but she had thought: I’ll just sit here, Daddy will come and get me again. Just four, but wise not to go out and wander yourself. I’ve never been so happy to see her. ”

This one that went wrong is in Kek Mama 14-2020.

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