Maddie: “Mom, do mermaids die?”
Me: “Mermaids aren’t real.”
Maddie: “Yes they are. Do mermaids die, mom?”
Me: “Mermaids aren’t real.”
Maddie: “Yes they are. I want to see a mermaid RIGHT NOW!“
Then I decided maybe it wasn’t time for me to dash her dreams of make-believe things so…
Me: “We don’t live near the ocean where mermaids live, sorry.” 
Maddie: “Yes they are. I want to see a mermaid RIGHT NOW!“
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Maybe you could read her the REAL Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen)… the one where mermaids actually DO die and turn into sea foam. My mom read that to me when I was little and I still can’t look at sea foam without feeling a little tinge of sadness.
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May 11, 2009 at 1:51 pm
lol. I should read that to her! Ick. Sea foam is even more gross to me than it was before! Mermaid guts, nasty.
Little ones are the best!
Good call with avoiding dashing her hopes of all that’s imaginary. Nice picture. haha.
I would say that its real.. I have heard a lot of things about mermaid here in the Philippines and I am sure they’re real and they exist.
i belive in mermaids but you can totaly tell that mermaid is sand:(
DEAR ARIEL THE LITTLE MERMAID
HI HOW ARE YOU? I KNOW YOU ARE DEAD AND I WISH YOU TO BE ALIVE AGAIN AND I WANT TO SEE YOU REAL MERMAID AND I WISH I WANT TO BE MERMAID TO LIVE IN THE OCEAN WITH YOU WITH KING TRITON’S CASTLE NOW I SEE YOU IN THE PICTURE AT THE SEAFOAM I CANNOT BELEAVE IT YOU ARE REALLY PAST AWAY AND GONE FOREVER YOU ARE MY IDOL AND MY FAVORITE MERMAID EVER NOW I HAVE ALL COLLECTION MERMAID STUFF LIKE THE LITTLE MERMAID STICKERS AND DISNEY DVD AND I HAVE ALL THE LITTLE MERMIAD PICTURES EVERTHING AND THE REST
LOVE ALWAYS YOUR PRINCE PAOLO FORTEZA
I WISH I WANT TO BE MERMAID
I WISH YOU TO BE MY FIRST GIRLFREIND
AND I KNOW YOU ARE REAL MERMAID I BELIVE REAL MERMAID
omg that is a real mermaid i thought mermaids are little
yah but thays not a mirmaid it’s a sculptureof a mirmaid with sea weed hair and gogles that’s so funny but a eight year old gots to do what a eight year old gots to do