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The teeth-chattering joys of cold-water swimming

9 February 2019

9:00 AM

9 February 2019

9:00 AM

The woman on the path has come to a dead stop. She’d been shuffling along in that bunched-up posture we all developed when we bought smartphones, a two-fingered salute to the millennia of evolution that managed to pull humans into an upright position. Now she’s staring, open-mouthed, at her surroundings.

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