Did you grow up by the sea, or did you get your affinity for the sea some other way?
I grew up around the sea: it's readily accessible from the greater Boston area and my grandparents with whom I spent a lot of time lived in Portland. I learned to swim in the ocean off Cape Elizabeth in Maine. But when I was something like a year and a half old, I was taken to see the century tides, and I jumped into them in the middle of winter (and was pulled out of the freezing water and shucked of my red-and-white snowsuit and wrapped in a sand-scratchy blanket in the back of my grandparents' car), so the general feeling in my family is that the affinity started early.
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I grew up around the sea: it's readily accessible from the greater Boston area and my grandparents with whom I spent a lot of time lived in Portland. I learned to swim in the ocean off Cape Elizabeth in Maine. But when I was something like a year and a half old, I was taken to see the century tides, and I jumped into them in the middle of winter (and was pulled out of the freezing water and shucked of my red-and-white snowsuit and wrapped in a sand-scratchy blanket in the back of my grandparents' car), so the general feeling in my family is that the affinity started early.
And I hope your health improves soon!
Thank you!