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Mary B's avatar

"Yes, yes, yes!" I said silently as I read and chuckled my way through this post. There are so many great descriptors, these are two of my favs: "...an unsympathetic woman with little aptitude for teaching and an undisguised dislike for children" and this about the very friendly lady with a beautiful freestyle stroke who would stop to chat sans covering, "I admired her self-confidence, but found it hard to know where (not) to look." So many faces from my past popped into my head as I read through; it's as if moments in our past are parallel. Loved this!

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Terry Freedman's avatar

Well done for disarming that rude person with a smile. I had a teacher like that too: made me feel useless because I couldn't swim fast. Still, I enjoy swimming and cycling, you enjoy swimming and running, so who cares about such people now? 😉

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