Hope Does Not Float, It Teaches Us To Swim

Typewriter Series #3107

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People talk a lot about HOPE. Sandra Bullock was in a movie about it, and I never quite agreed with the title of it. Hope doesn’t float, I always thought. Never has. Hope, I thought, was heavy.