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The man who swam to St. John on Emancipation Day
In 1985, Shaky Acres (the recovery program that Tutsie Edwards and I started in 1981) was going along fairly well but was in need of a fundraiser or two. Tuts heard (along with everyone else) of a proposed St. John swim (everybody heard of it because it …