Mourning Mermaid Girl

In a reality-TV landscape dominated by the bickering of Jon and Kate Gosselin or the antics of wannabe star Richard Heene and his Balloon Brood, it's easy to forget Shiloh Pepin.

The 10-year-old, dubbed Mermaid Girl due to a rare genetic condition, died in a Maine hospital Friday after spending a week in intensive care.

(Read the rest of the blog post at E!Online)

For more extensive reports/news on Shiloh Pepin, check out this article at UPI.com, or general results from Google News.