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Fourth lesson: Comfort in water can be natural and learned
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Times intern Audrey Williams practices holding on to the side of the swimming pool and floating Thursday at the Frances Meadows Aquatic Center in Gainesville. Williams is learning how to swim, which includes learning how to float.
Thursday marks the last day of my first week of the Red Cross’ Adults Learning the Basics swim lessons at the Frances Meadows Aquatic Center. With a patient instructor, Max Sumner, and a supportive classmate, Cornelia Martin, I’m so comfortable in the pool that I feel silly having avoided it for the past 23 years. While I am more comfortable in the water than when I started, I still cannot swim.