The Lifeguard, by Jennifer Dickinson
It’s no secret that women often become less visible to the world as we age. The heroine of Dickinson’s story is observant when others aren’t. Only after she saves a life do the people at the pool notice her presence, suddenly regarding her “with interest instead of ambivalence.”
There are many wonderful lines in this story, but the passage that really got me was this:
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