This post is a masterclass in how not to tell a story.
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I grew up around people in the overlapping circles of 'enough money to afford a pool' and 'not enough money to afford a slope that requires math, as a flat bottom just requires Jim-Bob's tractor'.
I am mostly here in the present these days. Occasionally I am in the future, but I suffer every time I try to talk of it.