The Swimmers

The SwimmersWe were all of us little kids then, or crazy little kids, as the older people liked to put it, each of us a friend to the others but at the same time a kind of rival, unspoken though the rivalry may have been, nobody really sure of who he was or what he wanted to do, but in a few of us the beginnings of identity and purpose showing themselves, generally by accident and more of a surprise to the boy himself than to any of the others--who to be, what to do, who really to be, what reall...