December 2008
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If you teach me, then I will swim anywhere to be...
When someone says, “I’ll teach you,” in response to hearing that I do not at all know how to swim, I get excited every time. It doesn’t matter that it won’t happen — the teaching or the learning — just that it was offered. I immediately picture myself in a pool being coached, holding my breath and dunking my head under water. I see a montage of dives and strokes, and finally the victory, where...