A Disabled Swimmer’s Dream, a Mother’s Fight

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From the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/.../18swimmer.html A Disabled Swimmer’s Dream, a Mother’s Fight By ALAN SCHWARZ Published: June 18, 2008 SAN DIEGO — As Kendall Bailey swims, his praying-mantis limbs flapping him forward, something about the water disguises his many maladies: cerebral palsy, mental retardation, autism and more. Only in a swimming pool do they dissolve and allow his troubled body and mind to be all but normal. He is happy, safe and possibly the fastest disabled breaststroker in the world....
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  • Hey everyone, Tom Cruise makes an appearance on our forum. Dolphin 2 has gone from talking about one topic he has no experience or knowledge of (swimming) to another (the medical profession). Stay tuned, next week he'll tell us all about nuclear physics because he owns a toy gyroscope. When you can google, who needs to go to skuul?
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  • Hey everyone, Tom Cruise makes an appearance on our forum. Dolphin 2 has gone from talking about one topic he has no experience or knowledge of (swimming) to another (the medical profession). Stay tuned, next week he'll tell us all about nuclear physics because he owns a toy gyroscope. When you can google, who needs to go to skuul?
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