Jillian loved to ice skate. she was taking ice-skating lessons. she knew how to skate forward and backward. she knew how to turn. sometimes she fell down, but she always got back up. one afternoon, she was learning a spin. she was spinning really fast, and she could not stop. she fell hard on the cold ice. she sat there for a minute. then she got up and tried the turn again. she wanted to get it just right. she practiced it many more times. she fell down a lot. finally, she got the spin. jillian was so glad to learn something new in ice-skating.
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what detail from the story supports the idea that jillian was glad she learned the spin?
she worked hard to do it just right.
she did not want to take lessons.
she did not fall down many times.
it was an easy spin for her to learn.

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