And maybe the water would help her think of what she could say.
It was an exceptional swim, even if it gave her little creative inspiration,
and it calmed her after the experience of having a conversation with her dead father.
She had the pool to herself and glided through length after length of breaststroke without having to think about it.
It felt so empowering, to be that fit and strong and to have such mastery of the water,
that she momentarily stopped worrying about her father and having to give a speech she really wasn’t prepared for.
But as she swam her mood changed. She thought of those years her dad had gained and her mother had lost,
and as she thought she became angrier and angrier at her father, which fuelled her to swim even faster.
She had always imagined her parents were too proud to get divorced, so instead let their resentments fester inside,
projecting them onto their children, and Nora in particular.
And swimming had been her only ticket to approval.
Here, in this life she was in now, she had pursued a career to keep him happy, while sacrificing her own relationships,
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