Swimming through fear\n On a tour of France, I saw the Mediterranean Sea, but the rip currents 1 me. And it reminded me that I developed 2 due to the experience of last summer and since then, the fear wouldn't 3 .\n When I saw a boy drowning amid the waves, I was in a 4 and 5 struggle whether I should save him because I was extremely 6 water. After my fierce struggle, I made the single big decision: to 7 the water. I finally reached the boy and had him under control; but when I swam back toward shore, the rip current was 8 us out to sea.\n I tried to remember how to escape from a rip current, and with that, I slowly 9 to safety, thus 10 my inner fear of water as well. I was 11 and 12 in a moment of 13 and 14 .