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-->) / Just think of me as Ava, who's lurked quietly about Otherkin boards of all kinds for half a decade or so now. I'm 30, and consider myself pretty boring; I've a pet dog and a cat, Cisco ( a female lol ) and Tallie ( a pretty calico ), I used to have a single fish at a time, solitary species, until it became too painful when they passed on. / I've not seen the ocean in nearly 10 years and it cuts at my heart like losing a friend. / I believe I am mer, de la mer, of the sea; a mermaid ( yep ) in human clothing you could say. / Since I remember "being", I've known this, long before I heard the word "otherkin". / It's like asking, how do you know you're alive? I simply know. How do I know I am mer? I simply know. / I could tell anecdotes my mind turns into evidence, but the strongest evidence is, I simply know. / I miss the ocean. Freshwater is not the same. Chlorinated, city water holds but a minute bit of the life contained in one drop of salty ocean water, and it is very sad we now live so far from nature that we experience only a very tiny bit of the enormity of life that we were meant to experience. / <!-- s

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--> / It is nice to meet you all!