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“She didn’t know how to insert a tampon.”

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There is one quiet place left on this earth. One quiet place where there are no phones, no news tickers, no instant messages or even music.

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After a string of falling grades, tumbling morale, and poor performance, everything came tumbling down at the state swimming finals.

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I approached them and noticed something on the baby’s legs. They looked like yellow mosquito bites.

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Michael Phelps winning gold in London in the 100m Butterly. Watching Phelps’ mom is almost better than watching Phelps. She is 100% the true Olympian.

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Sometimes no amount of discipline can influence a body. Sometimes discipline is just an excuse to punish ourselves: I will make my muscles ache and my lungs scream for air, because I am not yet a good enough version of myself.

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Getting pumped up to run into freezing cold water was surprisingly easy.

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I began to notice a pattern. I noticed that, when children went under, they didn’t struggle – they showed no signs of drowning. However, the adolescents and adults showed signs of distressed swimming, but not at the surface of the water.

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The first day it hits 40 degrees after a long, cold winter and you drive around with the windows down.

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Diving is freakin’ awesome. Like…really, really awesome. First of all you can breathe underwater, which makes you as close to a superhero as you’ll ever be. Second of all, you can do this activity all over this awesome planet of ours. And ninth of all? Well keep on reading.