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Stephanie stayed underwater as long as she could. She loved the feeling of holding her breath until she thought her lungs would explode. What she wasn’t counting on was a wall of water in her face when she broke the surface. She gasped, inhaling the chlorinated water, and coughed. When she could finally breathe, she pounced on the culprit. “Todd,” she sputtered, grabbing her older brother and giving him a knuckle noogie on the head. They both laughed as she clung to him, until Todd lost his grip on the balance bar and slipped under the surface. Stephanie Swift’s laughter abruptly stopped as she pulled him back up. “Gotcha again,” he grinned. But the pinched look on his face assured her that he hadn’t been kidding. “OK, you two, knock it off,” Todd’s red-haired physical therapist said. “We have work to do. Stephanie, let’s take Todd for a walk.”

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