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Antoinette

My mom shared a lane with a chubby young woman who got out of the pool around the same time we did. She walked up to us in the locker room and asked, “Do you speak English? “Yes.” “Oh, great. I’m Antoinette.” “You know, we were just talking about you. You swim really smoothly, you’re […]

May 5, 2014 – 7:11 pm | By admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Switch

It was crowded when my mom and I arrived at lap swim this morning. We each got into different lanes and had to share those lanes with the people who arrived before us. Once my mom’s lane partner left, I moved into her lane. I swam a couple of laps and then I stopped at […]

April 20, 2014 – 6:08 pm | By admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

All hail the belly man

When I used to regularly attend morning lap swim, I would often see this older man with a huge belly. Sometimes we would even split a lane. I remember that I could always swim faster than him. After some time, I started to find it difficult to wake up early enough to go to lap […]

November 1, 2013 – 12:13 am | By admin | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)