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The drowning event this poem is about is actually why I insisted the kids had to learn to swim. I read an article about this, complete with statistics for swimming among various demographics in the USA (did you know that when integration became the law a lot of towns closed and even destroyed their town pools, paving them over so they couldn't be reopened?) and I called up my sister that same hour and said "Your kids have to learn to swim, so you're going to sign them up".
The drowning event this poem is about is actually why I insisted the kids had to learn to swim. I read an article about this, complete with statistics for swimming among various demographics in the USA (did you know that when integration became the law a lot of towns closed and even destroyed their town pools, paving them over so they couldn't be reopened?) and I called up my sister that same hour and said "Your kids have to learn to swim, so you're going to sign them up".
