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In the pool's men’s locker room, three of us were changing after our therapeutic swims. Almost in unison we grunted in pain from our various injuries. I said, “At least we found relief in the water for a few minutes.” My friend quips back, “Damn Gravity.” It sparked a small flash of inspiration in me. I thought briefly that I might be able to express poetically the blessing and the curse of our common master – gravity.
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