Monday, January 18, 2010

Distracted

In the summer of 1973, when I was 12, I was sent to a wilderness camp for girls in Vermont. We were encouraged to swim in the nude. On the first day of swim class I was surprised that the teacher was also stark naked. She was standing on the dock in front of us gesturing the back stroke with her very skinny arms, tiny dark-nippled breasts, and bright orange pubic hair which matched the hair on her head. I was a bit distracted. I had no idea pubic hair came in different colors! Or that teaching in the nude was considered perfectly normal.

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