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When Santa Cruz's only big surf industry company, O'Neill Wetsuits, put on an event in October that for the first time included females, it could've been a happy story of progress at last. Instead it "came off wrong," according to many who followed it closely, and the company has said very little about it. Others, though, had much to say.
'I am just hoping I can be a part of a community that accepts me for what I am, and not having me be something I am not,' said Matthew Cadigan Hearn, who plans to live at Big Wave.