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