asked Blubby: "what was the closest you came to drowning"
"It's not really something I like talking about, but I'll tell you. A few years ago, a friend of mine let me hang out in their pool, and there wasn't a shallow end, but they said I'd be able to climb out with the ladder. Except I couldn't, it didn't go far enough down. I was trapped down there, and I had to just hope like hell that they'd check on me in time, which they almost didn't; I was nearly at my limit by the time they noticed I was stuck on the bottom, actually getting to the point where I was considering just giving up. I hate it, but this is the kind of thing that comes with not being able to swim."
"My friend felt awful after this, and next time I came by, they'd piled up some stuff under the ladder so I could actually reach it on my own. I wish they'd thought of that the first time, but they really thought I'd be fine."
"My friend felt awful after this, and next time I came by, they'd piled up some stuff under the ladd
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