There was a birthday being celebrated but the remarkable “coming of age” belonged to two cousins who plopped down at the restaurant table and said, “We’re exhausted… but Happy Birthday!”
They had been at Weeki Wachi Springs State Park for a weekendlong Sirens of the Deep Mermaid Camp. Immediately, 100 questions fell from heaven into my lap.
“How did you learn about this?”
“What possessed you to go?”
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