Imagine wading into a pool one morning and you forget how to swim. Instantly, you don’t know what to do. The water isn’t inviting, there’s a strange feeling instead, an alien feeling (what am I, here). You grab for the ladder. In some way, without anyone noticing, you’ve been exposed. You had the wrong idea about yourself as a person, someone who could …
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