“What she didn't display, I noticed, was a boxful of swimming medals."Holy crap," I said, when she set them on the desk. "You're like a fish.""Oh. Um. Well, I swim, you see."I saw.”

Maureen Johnson

Maureen Johnson - “What she didn't display, I noticed...” 1

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