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COPY LINK: https://isbooktoday.com/freedom/B09NPTMVQR In 1970s Cincinnati, Kim&#8217 overwhelmed, financially stressed parents dragged her and her four younger siblings into swimming&#8212 tarting with a nearby motel pool&#8212 as a way to keep them occupied and out of their way. When Kim was eleven, they began leaving the kids at home with a sitter while they traveled the Midwest, where they sold imported wooden ornaments from their motorhome. But when Kim&#8217 six-year-old brother crashed his new Cheater Slick bike and the babysitter deserted the children, what started as an accident became a pattern: Mom and Dad leaving for weeks at a time and the kids wrestling with life&#8217 emergencies on their own. As Kim coped in the role of fill-in mother while dealing with the stresses of elite swimming, she struggled to shape her own life. She eventually found strength, competence and achievement through swimming&#8212 and became the second female swimmer to win a full ride to th

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In 1970s Cincinnati, Kim&#8217 overwhelmed, financially stressed parents dragged her and her four younger siblings into swimming&#8212 tarting with a nearby motel pool&#8212 as a way to keep them occupied and out of their way. When Kim was eleven, they began leaving the kids at home with a sitter while they traveled the Midwest, where they sold imported wooden ornaments from their motorhome. But when Kim&#8217 six-year-old brother crashed his new Cheater Slick bike and the babysitter deserted the children, what started as an accident became a pattern: Mom and Dad leaving for weeks at a time and the kids wrestling with life&#8217 emergencies on their own. As Kim coped in the role of fill-in mother while dealing with the stresses of elite swimming, she struggled to shape her own life. She eventually found strength, competence and achievement through swimming&#8212 and became the second female swimmer to win a full ride to th

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