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SADLY, IT’S SAID THAT

mermaids

don’t have souls;

ONCE THEY DIE THEY SIMPLY

turn into

sea foam.

IN BIBLICAL TERMS (TO MISQUOTE GENESIS),

‘For sea foam

thou art, and unto sea foam

SHALT THOU RETURN.’