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to a very dark place.’
What also struck her was
the fact that ‘all the way
people thought I was a man;
even with a pink hat on, no
one was expecting a woman.
You should have seen the
shock on their faces! It was a
really big deal for them to see
a female swimming the
Thames. People weren’t
shocked to see a person in the
water, only that it was a
woman – everyone said, “oh