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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