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Plus, is it really worth it to amputate your legs just to play The Little Mermaid?]]>Feb 25th 2009 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/Feb 25th 2009 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/Feb 26th 2009 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/Mar 1st 2009 10:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/Mar 1st 2009 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/
pretty sure she didn't ask to lose her legs.]]>Mar 2nd 2009 2:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/
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Safe for work. ]]>Feb 25th 2009 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/
Here are the lyrics:

http://www.elyrics.net/read/g/great-big-sea-lyrics/the-mermaid-lyrics.html

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the interviewer is!]]>Feb 25th 2009 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/
P.S.: i have hoped that this would be some nice girl, probably my imagination based on child stories]]>Feb 25th 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/25/double-amputee-new-zealander-has-mermaid-dream-fulfilled/
That said, it's clear that this is far from perfect. Making it be perfect will probably require vast amounts of research and money, similar to what you would expect for a real prosthetic. It's just as hard to make a "real" mermaid's tail then it is to make a leg or arm prosthetic that feels real.

I think it's a wonderful idea.

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