Swimmer
April 20, 2014
She liked swimming.
She was a member of a sports gym and swam every day in its pool.
She used to be a hard-worker and become neurosis. @Her counselor recommended her to exercise for refreshing. She remembered that she had liked to swim when she was a child.  She lived by the sea and swam with her neighborhood friends every day. She had restarted to swim.

She swam almost every day.  She avoided late over time work and drinking parties at her work place. When she went on a date on weekdays, after five p.m., she would harry to go to her gym and swim fiercely for a short period of time.
At first, she was a good swimmer but her swimming became more and more efficient. When she swam, she felt as if she could swim like a fish.

One day, when she got a manicure, she realized that something about her hands were strange. "Have my hands become bigger?"  No. There was a small skin webbing between each of her finger's base. It looked like the webs on a frog's foot.   .
She was upset at first, but soon she found that she didn't dislike this. It seemed like a medal for her intensive swimming.

One day, she showed it to her boyfriend. She didn't want him to notice it first when they walked hand-in-hand.
Her boyfriend showed a different
expression than she expected.  He jumped up from the seat and stared at her hand for a long time. He didn't even want to touch it.
They broke up soon afterwards.

Her hand's webbing spread more and more by the day.  At first, she thought that she should go to the hospital, but she hesitated because the doctors might think it would be good for an experiment or good for the news.
Instead of going to the hospital, she put bandages on both of her hands at work, telling her colleagues that she suffered from some type of allergy on her skin.

But, on the other hand, it became more pleasant to swim with her new condition.  When she swam, she felt free from the hassles of her daily life.  With each stroke, her body went forward amazingly. She enjoyed the speed.

She spent her time swimming more and more.
She ate more than before. She had to spend her money mostly for food.
She came not to care about her appearance, clothes or make up.

On this day, she was standing by the shore where she lived when she was a child.
In these days, she had no worries, she thought.
She changed into her swimsuit.
She started to swim.
She seemed that she wouldn't be tired when she was swimming.
She came to the open sea. She knew that if she didn't return from here; she wouldn't have enough stamina to return.
But she didn't care about that.
She liked swimming.











*web :pieces of skin that connected the toes of ducks and some other birds, and help them to swim well (L)

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