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First thing she asked me when I dragged myself out of bed this morning for an 8 a.m. conference call was, “Can I put on my swim suit now?”<\/p>\n
Current plan is, once schedules return to normal at home, we’ll do a lot of swinging past the community pool on the way home from work\/summer school …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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