I am struggling to maintain my dignity – and my buoyancy – in Nagoya, Japan. My legs are encased in a violet-hued mermaid tail, and what I thought would be a graceful glide feels more like a splash. "Good," says Shellina Mermaid, my instructor at Mermaid Academy Japan. "But you swim like an American, late for a meeting. Swim slower, like a Japanese mermaid." This helps; soon, I'm swimming gracefully alongside two other local merfolk.
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