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Sarah Thomas on her love of ocean swimming
Marathon swimmer Sarah Thomas shares how her Catalina Channel swim in 2010 sparked a passion for the sea, and swimming out as far as she wants
I grew up in the middle of America. I was born in Kansas, then Tennessee before moving to North Texas when I was 10.
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