Growing up in the province (rural) Philippines in the 50's, there were still a lot more restrictions for women then. My mother and her sister were not allowed to swim in the sea (bay-bay) or the riverbanks that surrounded the tiny island that they grew up on. Her sister and her would watch their 7 brothers splash in the waters from the bank side. When she moved to the UK in the 70's, she only learned how to swim when I did in the 90's. We returned decades later. Here she is, claiming the waters she was forbidden to go in.
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