According to author George Plimpton, his mother once saved his life. He was swimming far from shore, and he began to drown. He had gone down twice, and he knew that after he drowned, his mother would go through his things. Then he remembered that he had stored in a box a pornographic movie. Suddenly, he found the strength to swim back to shore.
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