United Kingdom Mermaids

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“I’ve never been a person with a lot of friends. I can be quiet and reserved. I didn’t expect a community, I didn’t expect to be welcomed in, but that’s what I found. I’m right in the thick of things now and I am so glad.”

“I’m the opposite of the Little Mermaid,” she says. “She lost her voice to walk on the land. I lost my voice and headed into the sea.”

“Sometimes,” says Tasha Fairey in Cornwall, “when we are all swimming together in a pod, even though I’m one of them, too, I look around and think to myself, ‘Bloody hell, I’m surrounded by mermaids.’ And it never stops being incredible.”