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Mermaid Sophia Marie Merfolk Group on Facebook, incident for years. I had already
@mermaidsophiamarie which quickly grew to over 2,000 negotiated a mermaid pool policy
members while I was running for my local pool so I could swim
Photographer: Sophia Marie it. This led to the formation of a with friends there over the winter,
@swellsimagery local Pod with over 100 members so it wasn’t a big step to go to the
FB Swells Imagery in my hometown of Perth. I was local government and negotiate
a leader of this Pod for a while, a positive outcome for mermaids
I have been a mermaid since organizing meetups big and more generally. This has raised
December 2015 and have only small. I fell into becoming a my profile in the mermaid
ever had one goal attached to Mermaid political activist after a community, which means I now
being one: to have mermaid couple of professional mermaid have friends all over the world to
friends to swim with wherever I friends were refused entry into swim with.
go. To help achieve this, I founded their local swimming pool, which
Mermaid Mania International they had been using without

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