Lots of people start dating someone at work, but how many people meet the love of their life while wearing a 60-pound fish tail underwater?
That's the workplace romance of how Melissa Dawn, 31, a Florida-based "professional mermaid," found her true love.
Dawn, better known as "Mermaid Melissa," has a huge web following because she can hold her breath for five minutes underwater while swimming in a realistic, not to mention, sexy mermaid outfits.
Perfecting her aquatic talents took up so much of her time that this mermaid was afraid to jump into the dating pool for a long time.
Now Dawn is done waiting to exhale: She is lifting her head up out of the water and, for the first time,
publicly admitting she is in love with a merman.
It sounds fishy -- and it is -- but Dawn is in love with Antonio Padilla, 33, a fellow performer who dresses up as a merman for her shows when he's not performing at Sea World in Orlando.
"From day one, there was a connection, but I didn't know what it was," Dawn told The Huffington Post. "I got along with everyone [at Sea World], but he was the only one I wanted to socialize with."
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