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was so strong, and she caught
her foot on a submerged
trolley’.
It was Freda who taught her
daughter to swim. ‘She was a
bad asthmatic and by the age
of seven she’d never
managed a week at school.
What could we try? We were
told rowing, swimming or
singing. Well, singing was
out of the question and I
couldn’t send a seven-year-
old to row, but she could