Common Ground, Spring 2006
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“Sorry kid, can’t let you in,” the counselor said, fixing his glance on the fresh scar over my eye, still evident today under a graying brow. This wintry morning, one scarred facade stares down another as I point a lens at the pool’s flaking entrance, and it points right back. Memories rush up from the deep, summoned by the moment.

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