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You may have grown up taking swimming lessons so that if you fell off a dock into deep water it was no big deal. A century ago, kids were more likely to work in coal mines rather than go to school and get to cut class one week a year to learn how to not drown. But when the olden-times folks fell in the water, it was a…
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