CONWAY — Everyone does it — "you just don’t know it because there’s nowhere for them to go," said Caren Wiggin of Conway.
"Even if it’s not you doing the skateboarding, it’s someone you love, someone you know," added her mother, Anna Peare, also of Conway.
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