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Updated Saturday, August 23, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AP

Woman, 21, completes 325-mile swim for charity

PITTSBURGH -- A 21-year-old woman completed a 325-mile (523-kilometer) swim of the Allegheny River, a month after beginning her journey. But perhaps the end came too soon.

“I love swimming. I could keep going,” said Katie Spotz on Thursday, a couple minutes after emerging from the river at the base of the fountain at Point State Park, where the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers form the Ohio.

Spotz swam to raise money and awareness for the Blue Planet Run Foundation, a non-profit whose goal is to bring clean drinking water to the estimated 1 billion people worldwide who lack it.

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