She Does Not Do Halfway
Give her a kiddie pool, a hot tub or a decorative fountain and she will find a way in. The size of the water is irrelevant. Her friends stopped asking whether there was room long ago.
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The all-in friend: She signs up first and reads the details later.
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The sister on the girls' trip: Already in the hotel pool while the rest of you check in.
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Anyone with a tiny backyard pool: Three feet deep and treated like the Pacific.
Dawn swimmers and dock sitters agree on one thing: the air after the water is colder than the water. This garment-dyed crewneck from Comfort Colors is ring-spun cotton in rich, lived-in color, with a relaxed fit and dropped shoulders that pull on over damp hair without an argument. Double-needle stitching holds through years of pod birthdays and beach bonfires (and the bachelorette weekend nobody photographs honestly). Preshrunk and made to keep its shape, it is the layer the whole pod borrows and nobody returns. Mermaid Dayz made it for the one who comes out of the water last.