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Personal Narrative: My Swim Coach

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My swim coach is someone I have known for very little time, but I already know will make a huge impact in my life. Bob has been coaching for over forty years and although I have only known him for three weeks, I have already developed a love-hate relationship with him. He loves to torture me at practice, and I hate it. He is an older guy with a big personality. You can hear him even when he’s not in the room. He loves to joke around, but I don’t laugh hysterically when he “jokes” about making us swim five-thousand butterfly. He doesn’t mess around and I experienced that the difficult way. It was the first day of practice on a new team, and I shouldn’t have expected it to be so easy. We swam our warm-up, then Bob told us to get

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