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that he would offer to share his name with me. However, within my own accomplishments I would still want to be recognized on my own behalf, recognized strictly for my own merits and not those of someone else.

I came to the conclusion that I needed my own name! So I selected one that I felt symbolized not only my given name, but that also had the ability to reflect all of the many facets of the new person, that I have grown to be. I wanted to show how powerful I am, how strong and determined I am, how content I am. There was only one moment in time that encompassed all of these feelings, and it was what I saw as most representing myself, so I used these emotions to determine my pen name.

So it is that a mermaid came to represent all that I am, and all that I wish to express within my identity, and my life's work.

When I am swimming, I am alone, and I hear only the water as it swooshes around me. I feel the power within my body as I push the water past me, I feel the strengh within my strokes, and I know the tremendous force that I have over that mightiest of all elements. It makes me feel strong, graceful, and beautiful all at once.

I am totally alone in that world and in my thoughts, in my very quest, swallowed up by the water around me. It is at this time that I imagine I know how a mermaid feels as she swims through the ocean, only the sound of the water and her heart beating as her companions, her strength as her justification to continue on with her life. She is totally alone and yet totally content with this. She exists entirely within her physical and emotional strength.

Pen names are chosen for a variety of reasons. Mine because it appropriately represents me.

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