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or that my guardian angel was watching over me so I would not go where they were.

One would think that when we would have children my husband and I would start being knowledgeable about the subject of sharks. Well, we were just as ignorant. We put our children at risk and ourselves. Again luck and the guardian angels!

We went to Florida, the Carolinas, Virginia Beach, and California to the very places sharks were. There we swam and build castles many times before the children were five. There was not one place we heard anything about sharks yet we had several books in our huge library about sharks.

It was not until we were in a resort in South Carolina on the ocean that we began to think about and talk about sharks. Early in the morning many individuals and families would fish right on the ocean and when we went close to look at their catch we had no idea the fish they caught were sharks until they told us. The biggest one we saw was four feet long. The fish were absolutely beautiful and some were still alive. Our children of course wanted to touch them but we insisted that they would only look.

Furthermore, the fishermen told us that the fish we saw on the beach were baby sharks. Many were still alive. Our kids wanted to pick them up but we insisted that we would when we had a bucket and a shovel to pick them up. That was the first thing our kids wanted to do so we went back to the resort and got a bucket for my son and one for my daughter as well as their plastic shovels. My husband brought a little metal shovel we had in our van. Good thing we did since the plastic ones were useless. These fish were different from any other fish our children had seen and we watched them like hawks anytime they were looking at them. The little sharks kept swimming and being perky. We kept them on the balcony in the resort and even took one home to Ohio. It died on the way. We later found out that we were not allowed to take any fish to the resort or out of the area. As parents we were relieved since not even a hawk can see everything children do.

Our family had been to many aquariams and they had seen sharks but this was their first direct encounter with a shark. It was our first as parents too. The first thing that came to our mind was that if these baby sharks are on shore and the fishermen catch big ones alive, then sharks just may be in the water when we are in it. From that moment on we were never as comfortable and peaceful in the water with our kids. In back of our mind

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