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Today I went swimming at the Lido in a bikini.

I am really quite a fat lady, and I am definitely middle-aged. It would have felt genuinely impossible to me to go anywhere in a bikini in my teens, twenties, or thirties. I definitely look no better now than I did then and by most conventional metrics, probably quite a bit worse. I just really don't give a fucking shit anymore. It's marvellous.

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