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The First Time I Saw The Ocean, I Almost Drowned
On fear and friendship
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4 min readJul 27, 2022
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The first time I saw the ocean, I almost drowned. Twenty-one and high off the fact that I was breathing in ocean breezes for the first time. My friend had warned me not to go past a certain point. Warned that it was too far away to swim back without utterly fatiguing myself. The hypnosis of the waves…
