"GIRLS: BEING ACCEPTED IN SURFING," BY MARGO GODFREY (1969)
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This 1969 Surfing magazine article by Margo Godfrey might be the saddest piece of surf writing ever published. Godfrey, 16, was the newly-crowned world champ. She didn't yet have the big-wave chops that would define her career as a professional in years to come, but was already a mile ahead of her contemporaries nonetheless, and still just a high school sophomore. Yet here was, pen in hand, compel...
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