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My Pilgrimage
Alida begins her narrative from a pull on this thing to zip yourself up,
personal angle … and then draws and then you feel like a sausage.
insight from the story in relation to And I looked in the mirror, and I
the pilgrimage. “I’m not sure if any thought, ok, these things aren’t
of you have tried to get into a flattering but it’s ok, it fits, I can do
wetsuit,” she begins “you all know this… Then I had to get out of the
that it’s a little bit more complicated wetsuit, which also entailed a …
than one thinks.” “For my sins I wriggle … and the more I pulled, the
started doing triathlons a little while more the zip was not going
ago and I needed to learn how to anywhere. And this stuff is really
start to swim in the sea, and that thick, and it was the middle of
journey started with first getting December, so I was starting to
into a wetsuit. So, I borrowed a sweat, right, and still nothing, and
wetsuit from a friend, and I then I started feeling panic. So, I
thought, as I was going on a group phoned a friend who lives round the
swim the next day, I should corner from me to say: ‘please,
probably try on the wetsuit at come help me out of the wetsuit!’
home. Which I did. But there is a But the friend did not pick up her
whole process … because it’s this phone. ... I am now seriously
thick material, really hard to get on, sweating. So, I took this sheepish
and it’s got a zipped back, and you face, in this wetsuit, off to my
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