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Who among us wasn't horrified to find out that there was a mass of plastic and garbage

roughly the size of Texas floating around in the Pacific Ocean.

And of course none of us would have suspected that in the midst of all that trash,

the plastic and the toxic waste,

something even more sinister was brewing.

And coalescing, something terrible was turning and bubbling beneath the surface

and the guts of the great Pacific garbage patch, like a bowl, toads, tossed into a witch's cauldron.

The aquatic life was being slowly changed and broken down,

and then rebuilt again into something different.

And I may be the only one on earth who's seen it face to face.

You don't have to tell about it.

Pray that you never do.

When I first found out about the great Pacific garbage patch,

I did a lot of research.

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