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You must know that Mom was the embodiment of Mother Nature. She liked all animals, and so they liked her. I feel it was her mission in life to feed all of them. It would by no means have occurred to her to be afraid of any creature, or that anybody could possibly be in peril from any animal.

To provide you with an thought, after I was little, mother obtained to know a avenue performer who did a routine with a dwell bear. Naturally, the bear immediately liked her. She visited typically and inspired me to play with it. What could possibly be cuter? Since I used to be underneath her safety, I couldn’t have been safer. Had there been a T-Rex round, she would have handed me over and I’d have been fantastic. 

Anyway, if Mom had come on our shark journey, the night time earlier than, she would have gone to each grocery retailer in attain and acquired each fish she may discover. Then she’d keep up late chopping them up. The subsequent day, she would have stuffed her bathing swimsuit with 50 kilos of uncooked fish whereas attempting to speak us all into doing the identical (and we’d have mentioned a loud, “NO!” a lot to her irritation).

Then she would have waddled virtuously on the boat realizing that she was not technically breaking any guidelines (the brochure in truth didn’t forbid bringing actual fish bits on board). Then, she would have sat very nonetheless and straight to maintain the fish from slithering out from inside her overstuffed swimsuit. Inevitably, some would have escaped, and we’d all have needed to do our greatest to maintain them hidden from the captain, in all probability by slipping them inside our personal fits in spite of everything.

Meanwhile, the moment Mom stepped on the boat, sharks from miles round would sense that their most beloved particular person on the earth was coming to go to. Instead of the 12 sharks we really noticed, we might have had a whole lot all pushing to be close to Mom.

Once within the shark cage and oblivious to the panic of the opposite vacationers, Mom would have been fortunately reaching into her swimsuit for fish and petting and feeding all of the sharks she may. Of course, she wouldn’t have been capable of communicate with a snorkel in her mouth, however she would have used hand gestures and telepathy to inform them to cease being grasping and cease shoving and that they have been all stunning and that she needed to take all of them dwelling. In the again of her thoughts she would have been scheming the entire time about how you can really do that.

Because of the sheer variety of sharks, the cage would have been banged round and dented. Everyone else would have way back fled up the ladder into the boat for security. But the sharks can be underneath Mom’s spell and fortunately floating stomach as much as be petted in excellent bliss. Mom can be leaning out of the cage so far as she probably may to pet all of them. Eventually, the captain must go down himself to get her out.

Back on board, Mom would eagerly ask the captain if he had any extra fish guts to share as a result of the “poor sharks are so hungry.” She can be totally baffled as to why the captain didn’t and why nobody else needed to return down and why we have been racing again to land at high velocity with an enormous shiver of sharks chasing the boat.

Maybe that’s why the great Lord took her when He did. He wanted to spare everybody from the expertise of swimming with the sharks and Mom.

Anneli Byrd is a tutorial adviser in Weber State University’s General Studies and Exploratory advising.