Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think this is much healthier," she said. "I'm not embarrassed at all." She threw the towel over her shoulder and walked a few steps away, then turned. "I do wish they'd get a bigger pool, though. I do not like rubbing bodies while I'm trying to swim laps...
...went back to my corner. The urinals seemed determined to be my enemies. Number three, under which I was sitting, began to drip on my head. I moved one space down. The women returning from their swim do not tense their stomachs. They are tired. Their muscles are long and extended from swimming and they are relaxed. They go about their business, dressing, preparing for classes. They do not seem aware of the urinals, or of me, sitting against the wall...
...showers in the lockerroom are wonderful for washing hair. They run hot and strong and rinse every sticky bit of chlorine out. Women who swim regularly seem to have manufactured for themselves imaginary cubicles in the air. Each girl seems oblivious to the other as she putters around, turning and dipping, and measuring out her hair cream...
...girl emerges dripping, obviously tired and cold, from her swim. She disappears into the locker area and reappears with an armful of bottles. She lines the bottles up against the wall and carefully tests the water. Only then does she pull off her bathing cap and shake down a fall of deep red hair, below her waist and curly...
...Sometimes. I swim up on my stomach and back on my back and count the ribs in the ceiling. Do you swim every...