With “The Mermaid,” they conjure “pirates, fearsome storms, raucous drinking songs, toe-tapping fiddle tunes and rousing sea shanties that you can sing along to.” And no Ariel or Captain ...

Elián's mother, swallowed by the sea, died during the crossing ... joke," a doll someone had attached to a raft. But it was a boy. "I believe it was my destiny... [that we] ran right into ...

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