The author father took him to the beach in California. He and his father stood together in the waves.

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He hug on to his father. But the waves knocked him down and When the author was ten or eleven years old, he decided to learn to swim. There was a pool at the Y.M.C.A in Yakima. It offered him a good opportunity to learn swimming. The pool was only two or three feet deep at the shallow end, while it was nine feet deep at the other end. The drop was gradual. One day, he took a pair of water wings and went to the pool. He was alone at the pool. He felt afraid to go into the water alone. He sat on the side of the