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QUOTATION:When we’re in the water, we’re not in this world.
ATTRIBUTION:Gertrude Ederle (b. 1906), U.S. swimmer. As quoted in WomenSports magazine, p. 16 (May 1977).

Ederle was the fifth person, and the first woman, to swim across the English Channel.
 
 
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