Scott came to learn from a store employee that the fish was 10 years old. He’d spent his life in someone’s artificial pond before being surrendered to the store.

From the look of it, the fish had given up hope.

“I couldn’t stop thinking about him,” Scott said. “I couldn’t stand the thought of a fish who’d lived that long wasting away, spending his last days in a pet store.”

Scott convinced the store to let her take the fish home with her — not realizing then that his glory days actually still lay ahead.

All the fish needed was a chance.

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