Lyric Essay
How I Found Myself Coming of Age in the Silence of Water
Of public pools and adolescence
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4 min readDec 27, 2020
Maybe sometimes I went swimming with a friend, but I most remember going alone — the delicious solace of being alone in a group of strangers. I am an only child and often went solo to the pool. In 1990, when I was twelve years old, my mom dropped me off at the university…
