Life Rebounds

This fish I know had just moved to the city. One day, he was out and about and got clipped by a bike messenger. It split him open pretty good sending some of his insides out where they don't belong. Fortunately for him, the paramedics got to him before the gulls descended. The doctor, a sporting enthusiast from a young age, performed a radical procedure on the fish, filling him with rubber to seal up all wounds. The fish lived on as a rubber fish. Life continued on for the rubber fish. He found a job, met a lady that became his fish wife, and enjoyed the many modern conveniences afforded all city dwellers, even rubber fish. His blissful life was interrupted one day by news from his doctor: the rubber he had used had a limited life and would erode the rubber fish from the inside out. The rubber fish told his fish wife and she replied, "That's okay. You always bounce back."