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‘We were afraid of the ocean… Now we’re lifesavers!’

The water filled her nose and mouth as Sahar Ehsani flailed about, trying to remember what her instructors had told her about kicking her legs and moving her arms.

“It was so diffi cult,” Sahar, now 18, tells . “I’d been doing swimming classes for a year, but I was getting discouraged.

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