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KIRSTY
LUDBROOK
I'm not sure if a rhetorical question is really the best way to start a fairytale, but this is the way i have chosen it. So does a fairytale have to have a happy ending? does it cease to be labelled as a fairytale if it ends with the princess having to watch the prince go into the army and forgetting about her? if the prince, the stereotypical prince charming ends up being gay and preferring her older, slightly fatter brother? or should fairytales be politically correct, thus making them even less real, possibly improving and preserving the magic and mystique? ok, enough with the questions. a princess can be anyone. even me. i can be a princess, someone's princess. one day, people keep saying. one day, you'll find someone who will treat you like a princess. like you deserve to be treated. why wait? why shouldn't everyone treat everyone else like princes and princesses, instead of passing the buck and leaving the poor person watching the horizon and dreaming that one day their prince or princess will come along and carry them away to find their happy ending. stories should maybe then have a happy ending to help these unfotunates. to give them some hope that they can be happy. that their story can be written in a book so another can read it and wish and hope and dream that it was them. take me, for instance. compared with the regular fairytale pattern, i was born into a fucked up household, with parents fresh from divorce, adopting teenage siblings and then having me. the glue baby. simply conceived and born to be used to keep them together. as time went on, i seemed to be doing the opposite. if you've read the story i wrote for this site (the plain girl) you should maybe realise by now that i am the main character. the plain girl. and my niece, zoe, is the pretty girl. the one everyone loves and praises for being so wonderful. so my fairytale is still in progress. i haven't reached my happy ending yet, not sure when it's gonna get here, not sure if it's gonna get here, but it's nice to hope. to keep reading the stories and hope one day you can write your own and it'll work out that way. but fairytales don't have sequels. they start with unhappiness and end with the happiness. maybe if they carried on the stories for a few more chapters, they'd find that the magical weddings didn't quite go as planned, or the prince wasn't as great as first you would think. so maybe we have found our happy endings when we are happy, and when we are down again, it's just a start of a new story, with an inevitable happy ending. maybe.
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