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The Real Little Mermaids

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"ON a sunny December afternoon, Karri Holliday was sitting on the dock of her parents? home on a tiny island here along Florida?s Gulf Coast, about 50 miles northwest of Tampa. She wore a strand of pink fake pearls, sparkly face stickers and purple eye shadow ? remnants of the costume she wore earlier while entertaining children at a birthday party.

That was a freelance gig; her main job is appearing at Weeki Wachee Springs, a beloved tourist attraction in a nearby town, where she performs as a mermaid, swimming underwater in a 15-pound glittery tail alongside manatees, turtles and fish in a freshwater stream. At Weeki Wachee, she usually plays the role of the heroine Ariel in a production of ?The Little Mermaid,? which was inspired by the Hans Christian Andersen tale."

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