The undertow - Astrid
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Women don't avoid sovereign hobbies by accident; they get pulled back before they ever reach the water
It's 4AM and my suitemate's alarm has just gone off. I peered at my phone and did a mental calculation: I could get up now and eat a leisurely breakfast with others or go back to sleep for another half hour, walk to the main cafeteria, rush and grab tea, manage to digest a banana, and make the 4:45 departure to Aposentillo, a well-known surf break in northern Nicaragua. This calculation “sleep or breakfast" would repeat itself every morning for the next week as I settled into a women's-only surfing retreat I had signed up for, somewhat against my better judgement. I had tried surfing twice…
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