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This is Love

Something Large and Wild

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

An unconventional love story about a teenager, the Pacific Ocean, and an encounter with something wild.  Grayson, by Lynne Cox Lynne's latest is Swimming in the Sink. You can find more about Lynne at her website: http://www.lynnecox.com/ Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:13.7

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0:18.4

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0:21.3

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0:25.0

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:31.0

Hi, it's Phoebe.

0:33.0

Since a lot of us are feeling a little lost right now,

0:37.0

we thought it was a good time to listen back to our favorite story that we've ever done.

0:50.0

I got in the water in the very early morning before the sun had risen and the water was pitch black. I started swimming and I felt the water hollowing out around me and felt like something really big was swimming below.

1:09.2

Like what is this below me? Usually water doesn't feel hollow, water always feels fluid and always wraps around you and it always makes you feel buoyant it's there but to have

1:15.9

something underneath you it's sort of pulling you down it's the slip stream that

1:21.0

you're getting caught into and so in my mind I'm thinking, oh my gosh, is it a seal? And I'm like, no, it's too big for a seal. It's like, okay, is it a dolphin? No, it's not a dolphin and then I thought oh my God could it be a

1:35.1

shark you know when you do these long swims and you do them at night you have to keep your mind under control because if you freak out then you're out of a swim.

1:48.0

So I kept talking to myself and saying, okay, you're not sure what it is just move closer to shore.

1:57.5

I swam closer to shore

1:58.8

but this thing kept swimming around near me.

2:01.8

The water kept getting hollowed out meaning I could feel something

2:05.4

underneath pulling me forward and so I swam closer to shore and then thought about getting out of the water, but I convinced myself to keep going.

2:17.0

I mean, this is most people's biggest nightmare on Earth, that they would be swimming in the water and that they would feel

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