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Yesterday was day one of swim lessons. The first day of the first session, no less. I arrived early, the previous class was running late, and there wasn't enough chairs or shade for two groups of parents during the class change. When I finally found myself sitting in the shade of a barely moving palm tree in 99 degree weather, something occurred to me. These days would not last forever. Yeah, one mother picked up my son's shirt and threw it on the ground so she could have his chair, and another mother parked so ridiculously close to me that I had to wait for her to back up in the blazing sun just so I could get into my own car, but I felt a sense of pride in the process. I was doing what every parent inevitably finds themselves doing, I was trying to give my son a leg up in the world. A class for this, a class for that, running here, running there. And sitting there with all the other parents made me feel more normal than I ever have. ...

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