<p style="text-align: justify;">By DON VAN NATTA Jr.Published: August 9, 2011. At 12:45 a.m., Ms. Nyad was vomiting as she was pulled from the water onto a support boat, about midway through her estimated 60-hour swim. Winds had blown her at least 15 miles off course. “It was my decision to stop and nobody else’s,” Ms. Nyad said during a phone interview from a Key West marina. “I’m deeply grieved and disappointed, but I can hold my head up high. We pictured that moment of me crawling up on that Key West shore. We knew it was my year and my time, even at age 61. It was a fairy tale, but the fairy tale didn’t come true.”
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