January, dawn, and the water is a temperature most people would call a decision. She is already in it. Nobody tested it for her and nobody needed to, and while the beach is still negotiating she is halfway to the point.
Back on the sand, cheeks stinging, she declines to discuss it.
She does not wait for permission anywhere else in her life either. First onto the dance floor at weddings, first to say the thing out loud. The women who just go own January, and in The Tide Pool she went first.
When the tail is in the closet, the shirt has to say it for you. The Comfort Colors 1717 is a heavyweight 6.1 oz tee cut from 100% ring-spun cotton grown in the USA, garment-dyed and soft-washed so it already feels like a tide-worn favorite on the first wear (and preshrunk, so the fit holds from June to the cold-water months). It is the tee for the long business day that ends at the lake, and for the landlocked believer whose nearest ocean is a screensaver. Soft on the skin, sovereign in the room. Mermaid Dayz prints it for the woman who has a mersona and a mortgage.