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A single Ian Thorpe, Grant Hackett, or Dawn Fraser would have been sweet, but, no, apparently my body can't produce any gold medal Olympians.

Not even dog paddlers clinging to kickboards. It seems there's a permanent 'no swimming' sign erected internally. No swimmers, not even bad ones.

I'd always pictured the Australian dream - house, m

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