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‘Tracing the Blue Light’: Read Chapter 1 of Eileen Cronin’s ‘Mermaid’

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What is it like to realize you have no legs—and that’s why you’ve been left behind by your vacationing family? The author remembers in this excerpt from her acclaimed memoir.

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