Mearmaids,Seals+Scuba+Divers,+Oh+My!

I've loved swimming all my life. My dad says he got me mixed up with a fish. A mistake he says. I learned how to swim when I was four in the heat of the summer. My dad taught me in Green Lake. We always went swimming down there together in the summertime,, and then got icecream afterwards. When I first learned, I tried to do every stroke my dad new. With help from my mom and dad, I soon suceeded. I was so excited when I had learned all the strokes, that I drove my dad nuts. If it were warm enough out, I would beg my dad to go swimming no matter where I was, or what I was doing. My brother was born two and a half years after I was. I taught him everything I knew about swimming. When he got old enough to swim with out a life jacket, he became my new swimming partner. We were almost every kind of sea creature you could imagine. We would be mermaids diving down looking for lost boats. Or maybe we would be scuba divers, or maybe seals. We had names like Lillypad and Pollywog. Then when my youngest brother came along, he was Teeny Algie. All of us, my dad, two brothers and I were a school of fish, a pack of orcas. We swam all the lakes of Washington, and all the seas of the world. If we had the chance to swim, we'd take it! All those times when I swam with my family bring back good memories. Now, whenever I swim, I think of all those good times, and smile. Thinking of all the fun we had, and knowing that it will never be the same.
 * Paper Title:** Mearmaids,Seals Scuba Divers, Oh My!