In a suburban Maryland swimming pool, amid scuba divers practicing with oxygen tanks and young children wearing floaties while holding paddle boards, more than a dozen technicolored mermaid tails ...

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In “Disney’s The Little Mermaid,” title princess Ariel, uncomfortable with her body and her life below the waves, wants to trade her fins for legs. Flap-flap for pitter-patter as she literally flips ...