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Not many people remember how they learned to walk or talk as children. But it seems like everyone remembers swimming lessons. Even if they didn’t work.

First grade. Warsaw, the late 1980s. The smell of chlorine, which hits you from the entrance to the pool and foreshadows what’s coming next. Then it’s just the locker room, the showers and the footbath. And then the PE teacher will throw us into the cold pool, one by one. At the end, the