A short story of 1 or 2 degrees of greatness!

With who you wonder? While sitting by the side of the pool one morning with my friend Steve waiting for the lanes to clear we began a discussion about proper swim strokes and where and when we learned to swim. Myself? at the age of 1 in my Uncle Jerry's pool in Miami Fla where I grew up then learned all 4 strokes on the swim team as a little girl with practices every morning before school at 6am at the University of Miami pool with Olympians practicing with and next to me! Steve? well he said he never really learned just thought the lake looked so great he jumped in and kinda figured it out. This escalated to how the strokes have changed over the years since i learned them and how Diana Nyad had to change her stroke after all these years in order to protect her shoulder for her most recent swim and i had always thought that her stroke looked a bit like mine but not anymore. Then Steve says "well you know who taught me my stroke" and i said "i thought you didn't learn" and he said "well i learned years later,....BY DIANE NYAD!!!!!!" I yelled OMG so loud! WHAT? HOW THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN??? Well, my mother used to live in the Cafe des Artists building (in NYC) and every once in a while i would go to use the pool in the basement and and one day there was a woman there too and she told me my stroke was wrong and taught me how to do it right! WHAT?! OMG! and the other day I am so honored to report Diana herself responded to a tweet of mine! So THANKS! to Diana from Steve and from me cause its not often that you find someone you can share a lane with and not wanna kill! and I know that's partly because of you Diana! P.S. On another morning my same friend Steve (clearly touched by greatness 2x), says to me "you're a Pilates instructor right?" and i said yes and he says "when i was a kid I had bad posture and my mother send me to a man named JOSEPH PILATES!!!!!!" but that's a whole other story!