Around the Campfire

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swim free indeed

swim free indeed

a bit of backstroke of bad luck

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John Roedel
Sep 08, 2023
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During the first few days of summer when I was eight years old, my parents made the generational mistake of signing me up to be a member of a neighborhood competitive swim team whose season had started about two weeks earlier.  

They made this decision based on the advice from my exhausted second-grade teacher who recommended to them during our fairly co…

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