Training Mai Lin

By lovnbowser. I was a nineteen-year-old junior with a modicum of talent. During the summer program, the assistant administrator of women’s athletics approached me about sharing a room and mentoring an incoming freshman hotshot swimmer. We had finished second in the NCAA women’s swimming championships, and this new freshman was supposed to be the answer for us to climb to the pinnacle. I wasn’t a swimmer. I played basketball. But, I was acknowledged as one who could adapt and get

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The Sabbatical

Shabbadew2002 (shabbadew@ca.rr.com) Part 1 When she graduated from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, in late spring 2009, Cassandra Ackerman, known by her friends as Cassie, promised herself a sabbatical. She booked a flight and left in late May for Thailand. After a few days in the north, she ended up in Bangkok. There, she swam at the beaches of Pattaya and Naklua, shopped, flirted with boys, hung out with kids from the United States and Australia,

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The County Fair

Rhonda & CL (rhonda_love69@hotmail.com) Part 1: The County Fair… Life seemed to be going well for my thirty-five year old wife, Rhonda. She’s doing well in her job and is feeling very pleased with herself. I, however, had recently been made redundant and took a package from the company I worked at for twenty-years. I had been feeling down as the job prospects for a forty-year-old man looked bleak. We didn’t have any kids because Rhonda can’t. The one thing

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