Give her twenty minutes and something to float in and she will manage. A municipal pool at six in the morning counts. So does the pond at her cousin's farm, and so, midweek, does a tub filled too high behind a locked door.
The ocean is what she is saving for. The rest is what gets her through the week.
There is a damp towel in her car that has not been home in a month. The year-round swimmer who moves from the indoor lane to open water the minute April allows it. The Tide Pool is not picky about where it is, and neither is she.
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.