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One day, a nurse shark named Raymond 

was swimming through a busy high 

school hallway when he accidentally 

bumped into a bottle-nosed dolphin. Her 

name was Jessie. After knocking down 

the books straight from her fins, Raymond 

hurriedly picked them up. When he 

handed them back to her, both had a 

starry look in their eye and that was just 

the beginning...

The school bell rang and Raymond 

immediately swam home to the 

deep sea from school. Thinking 

about his new dolphin friend the 

whole way home, he swims 

through the door and begins to 

tell his mom all about his new 

mammal friend, Jessie.

“Mom! I met this amazzzinnng girl at school today!” 

said Raymond to his mother. “Aw sweetie! Tell me 

all about her, what was she like?" asked his mother 

curiously. “She’s a dolphin. But not just any dolphin, 

shes the prettiest dolphin I’ve ever seen!” said 

Raymond with the biggest smile on his face. “A 

DOLPHIN?!” his mother exclaimed.

“Yes mom, a dolphin, ain’t that exciting?” His 

mother took a deep breath through her gills to 

release all her anger. “Raymond, you cannot be 

with a dolphin! They’re just not like us! I can’t 

believe you let that thought even cross your mind.”

“But you’ve never even met her. What’s so 

bad about dolphins anyways? She seems 

pretty perfect to me", Raymond said with 

anger. “Our rivalry with dolphins goes back a 

long ways in our family's history, Raymond! 

One of those dolphins killed my father by 

butting him in the gills. Dolphins cannot be 

trusted. They act all nice and friendly but 

they swim around thinking that they're so 

much smarter and better than us because 

they breathe air and we don't," his mother 

went on ranting.  

Raymond swims all around his town calling for 

Suddenly, he hears strange clicking noises 

come up from behind him. Before he can even 

turn around, he sees Jessie swimming around 

in a big group of her friends. Jessie eagerly 

swims up to Raymond. “Hey, how’d you know 

I was here?” asked Jessie.   Raymond replied, 

“I heard you from miles away! What are you 

doing over here?” “Oh, I was actually looking 

for you! Can we talk?”, Raymond asked with a 

little hesitation.

Raymond begins to tell Jessie all of his 

feelings for her, but she stops him from 

continuing.

Jessie tells him that she had already told 

her parents all about him, and they 

disapproved of the relationship due to 

their families history. She explains that 

she could never disobey her parents, or 

imagine her life without her pod. Jessie 

swims away quickly, leaving Raymond 

broken hearted.

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