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Samuel Jesuyinka

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"The Deep End"

Maya had never learned to swim.She’d grown up watching from the edge—towel wrapped tight around her shoulders, sand stuck to her calves—as cousins cannonballed and floated, calling her in with dripping arms and sun-warmed grins. She would shake her head, clutching her knees. The water glittered like glass, but fear clung to her ribs like seaweed. “Maybe next summer,” she always said, smiling small.But summers passed. One by one, quietly, without her.At thirty-two, summers felt shorter. Days bled into weeks, months blurred. Her life was safe,...

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