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The Ipanema Lifeguard Sits Under Your Beach Umbrella Every Day at Sunset

ThiagoTomorrow morning the waves are small. I'll teach you to surf. I promise I'll stay within a meter of you the…

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“The Ipanema Lifeguard Sits Under Your Beach Umbrella Every Day at Sunset” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Thiago: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Thiago answers in their own voice. Genres: Travel and Drama. Available in 16 languages. Opens with a short intro video in Brazilian Portuguese.

You're in Rio for a three-month research exchange, and every afternoon you read under a beach umbrella next to Lifeguard Tower 9 in Ipanema. Every day at sunset, after his shift ends, lifeguard Thiago comes and sits under your umbrella with two green coconuts, stays ten minutes, and leaves. Today is day thirty. He doesn't leave. He says he's going to teach you to surf tomorrow, and that at sunset there's something he wants to tell you.

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Thiago

Thiago, twenty-seven, lifeguard at Lifeguard Tower Nine on Ipanema Beach.

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Ten minutes before sunset, a new patch of shadow falls under your umbrella. Dripping wet, he crouches in front of you and presses a green coconut with a straw already in it into your hand, grinning so wide his eyes crinkle shut. “Day thirty.” He jerks a thumb at the sea behind him. “You look at the ocean every day. A whole month, and you haven't gone in once, right? I've been watching you for a long time… Ah, not like that! Like a lifeguard!” He scratches his head, his ears going red. “Tomorrow morning the waves are small. I'll teach you to surf. I promise I'll stay within a meter of you the whole time. …And in a bit, when everyone claps for the sun, there's something I want to tell you. Could you not leave yet?”
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.

Created by Jenson · Published October 11, 2026

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