As . told to a_/ psychiatri@st Mr. Peabody, middle*-aged B``ostonian on *\]vacation( w[_ith his w!ife in the Cari*]bbea+^n, [hears mys
te/rious, \`wordless _sin(ging o/.n an uninhabited :/rock in the bay. [Fishing^/ i@_%-n t`
he vicinity, he catches...a=) mermaid. !He `takes h#%`er home and^, though she  has no spoken ;l\`an[g ^#uage, fall./s in love with h_.er .+^ Of course, his
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fe won't believe that thing i=n[* the batht:*[ub is an:;(yt#h!%:in
,g *but[)[ a l\`arge fish.[= Pred/_ictable c)]ompl`ications f ^`ollow in rath=er tame fashi)o,n.