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Send in the clowns

November 15, 2014 11:00 pm • Last Updated: November 15, 2014 10:50 pm

Siobhan Fitzpatrick, foreground center, of Mahopac, N.Y., who will be an inline skating clown, joins other volunteers, Macy's employees and Big Apple Circus clowns doing warm-ups Saturday at "Clown U." under the the Big Apple Circus tent in New York's Lincoln Center. A one-day training session was held for people who want to be among the thousand or so clowns in the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Siobhan Fitzpatrick, foreground center, of Mahopac, N.Y., who will be an inline skating clown, joins other volunteers, Macy's employees and Big Apple Circus clowns doing warm-ups Saturday at "Clown U." under the the Big Apple Circus tent in New York's Lincoln Center. A one-day training session was held for people who want to be among the thousand or so clowns in the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

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