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Mom reflects on how her city pool is a special place for her son and neighborhood

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September 05, 2022

Alysia Abbott

In this aerial view a slide stands at a pool at the Kiebitzberge public swimming pools near Berlin during the coronavirus crisis on April 28, 2020 in Kleinmachnow, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Alysia Abbott's 14-year-old son finds solace at their city pool near Boston. In this essay, she explains why this public space is an inclusive one for him and others.

This segment aired on September 5, 2022.

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Alysia Abbott teaches creative nonfiction at Emerson College and is the author of "Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father" (W.W. Norton, 2013). She lives with her family in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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