Happily Ever After
Modern romance, gift shop encounters, and an underwater music video shoot
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11 min readApr 17, 2018
When Lyssa was seven, her mother took her to see the movie where the mermaid wants legs. At the ending, she shook her head and squinted at the prince and said, “Why would she leave her family for that?” which for years contributed to the prevailing belief that Lyssa was sentimental or softhearted, when in…