I can swim. Poorly, but I can do it. Did the Red Cross lessons thing. Having an older brother who liked to dunk you a lot as a kid didn't help my confidence in the water much. Made sure my kids were in lessons as well. They have done ok.
It has always haunted me that one of my childhood best friends drowned 20 feet off a dock in BC because he had never learned to swim. He was 22 years old. His older brother could only watch as he didn't know how to swim, either.
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