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Do you remember what you said in the multiverse?

It was my dad’s 75th birthday a few days ago. We went for a hike at a preserve at the southwestern tip of Deer Isle, accompanied by stories of every time he’s almost died.
sand bar connecting two pieces of land, blue skies with cumulous clouds
Barred Island

The last time I wrote, I had just met Cheryl at the pond. (It turns out her name is spelled with a "C," not an "S.") I ran into her again on my last swim of the season, in early September (the month I neglected to write a post in, sorry, maybe I'll write two this month). When I emerged from the water, she introduced me to her daughter as a long-distance swimmer. “Like us,” she said. I was chuffed, as I had just swum out further and longer than I ever had before, but had never imagined myself a long-distance swimmer.

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