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Once upon a time, there was a beautiful young maiden with long, golden hair who was locked up in a tower. One day a handsome prince found her, and he fell in love with her and carried her away to his castle where they lived happily ever after. Or did they? The fairytale you’ve heard isn’t the one I’m telling. No, I’m afraid that the trials of our dear little Rapunzel (whose name wasn't actually Rapunzel) didn’t end there. But in order to get there, we should really start from the beginning, because that’s where the storytellers all went wrong, long ago and far away... Once upon a time, there was a king and a queen. They hadn’t been king and queen for very long, at this point. They were very happy together, ruling over a small but wonderful and peaceful kingdom. Well, they would’ve been happy no matter how big or small or even real their kingdom was, because they had each other, and that was enough for them. But everyone has their weaknesses, even a happy royal couple. And, unfortunately, an evil witch knew what the king’s weakness was. The witch – who was not at all wrinkled and ugly, just for the record – disguised herself as a maid in the castle and poisoned the queen’s food. Oh, not to kill her. If she’d done that, there’d be no story to tell. No, the poison the witch gave the queen wasn’t exactly something you could call a poison, unless you realized exactly how it would poison the kingdom. It was something more like a beauty potion, really. It made the queen grow more and more beautiful every day. So beautiful that the king could hardly take his eyes off of her, and began neglecting his royal duties to spend time with her. It wasn’t so much that he neglected them, though, that was bad. It was that, when anyone reminded him of... ... middle of paper ... ...t about huckleberry pie). It was too late for anything to be done to prevent it, so the queen decided to help her daughter out – somehow she simply knew it was a girl – by writing her a letter. So she did, and then hid it where Ellen would never think to look. She treasured the moments she had with her newborn daughter when they came, for she knew they would be few and short. Despite the terrible events of her past, Queen Flora was at peace when she left the realm of the living, satisfied to have left something that might help her daughter be happy in life. And now, dearest of readers, I shall turn you over to "Rapunzel" herself, so that she can tell you the story exactly as it happened. Don't worry about your dear old narrator here, I'll be back for the epilogue. Our heroine can't really be expected to know all the details of before and after her life, now, can she?

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