`Mermaid' girl dies, she was 10

Shiloh Pepin, a girl who was born with fused legs, a rare condition often called "mermaid syndrome," and gained a wide following on the Internet and national television, has died. She was 10.

Doctors had predicted she would survive only for days after her birth at the most, but the girl, described by her mother as "a tough little thing," died at Maine Medical Center last Friday afternoon, hospital spokesman John Lamb said. She had been hospitalized in critical condition for nearly a week.

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