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“Exactly. Now, if someone grabs your wrist,” he said, extending his hand. “You’re going to do the ‘heel of palm’ strike to the nose, then twist and pull.”

The lesson began in the living room, an area now cleared of coffee tables but still harboring a very expensive ceramic giraffe from their trip to Kenya. Mark, puffed with the confidence of two YouTube tutorials and a single Krav Maga seminar, started with the classics. When Teaching Stepmom Self Defense Goes Wrong -...

Claire, wearing her favorite cashmere sweater and holding a can of pepper spray like it was a TV remote, nodded seriously. “So, no going for a nice drive with the kidnapper. Got it.” “Exactly

Claire spun around, fists up, eyes wide with adrenaline. “Did I do it right? Was that the solar plexus?” Mark, puffed with the confidence of two YouTube

Claire practiced the motion. Stomp. Elbow back. It was clean. It was sharp. It was a thing of martial-arts beauty.