Happily ever after starts here

"We all remember the bed time stories of our childhoods.
The shoe fits Cinderella.
The frog turns into a prince.
Sleeping beauty is awakened with a kiss.
Once upon a time and then they lived happily ever after.
Fairy tales, the stuff of dreams. The problem is, fairy tales don't come true. It's the other stories, the ones that begin with dark and stormy nights and end in the unspeakable.
It's the nightmares that always seem to become reality.
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Once upon a time, happier ever after.
The stories we tell are the stuff of dreams. Fairy tales don't come true.
Reality is much stormier. Much murkier. Much scarier.
Reality it’s so much more interesting than living happily ever after. "