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In time, Solanna the seal maiden
got used to her new world.
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Slowly, she learned
how to walk like a girl
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and how to talk, though her voice
remained uncommonly high.
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The fisherman taught her how to cook,
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though she still preferred to
eat her fish raw,
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and loved to each bowl
after bowl of seagrass,
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and would sometimes eat a wriggling eel
by biting its head off first,
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and then swallowing it down whole.
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You could see it rolling around
in her belly for ages after.
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Because of these tricks, though
to Solanna they weren't tricks,
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only the proper way to eat, the
children around were fascinated by her.
