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I don’t know how to swim, but I can swim well Ask me to teach you how to solve a problem, and I am stumped but tell me to move a mountain and I will push it out of your way I can do so much more than I can explain I feel so much more than my words can express and my body knows my muscles know every aching sinew knows how to do so many things ride bikes shoot guns arm wrestle thumb wrestle climb mountains push, pull, squat, and stretch but if you asked me how I wouldn’t know how to tell you. You would think having so many words would make it easier! but it makes it worse. What if I can’t explain how I’m feeling in English so I think what’s the Russian word for that? only I know deep in my brain I should be using the French word which I also can’t remember, but only because Spanish doesn’t have the word for it, and I don’t speak German So imagine - everyone around me drowning, me, for the first time, swimming, but I can’t help anyone because I don’t even know a stroke.

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Date: 9/28/2024 1:49:00 PM
I'm up for thumb wrestling anytime. Then I'll thump you in ping pong. Jus sayin
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Tom Woody
Date: 9/28/2024 2:56:00 PM
Ha!
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Daniel Bailey
Date: 9/28/2024 2:40:00 PM
I’ll school you in thumb wrestling, old man. And then you can thump me at ping pong.
Date: 9/28/2024 8:40:00 AM
WOW...I must FAVE this as it answers so many questions that it wasn't asked....a marvelous expose' of "just do it".....
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Daniel Bailey
Date: 9/28/2024 10:59:00 AM
Thank you, John! I appreciate your kind words!

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