One summer, my mother took us to Florida to visit my grandparents and my father stayed home to work. To offset the stress, he exercised. His usual M.O. was to jog until he was exhausted, drink a beer to "recalcitrate" (not a medical term although he used it that way), then swim laps in the …

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