Isn’t this how all fairy tales begin?
Once upon a time in a faraway land, there lived …
- A gnome.
- A princess.
- A prince.
- A piglet.
- A guy with a secret.
- An orphan child with a unicorn.
- A king or a queen.
- A shepherd.
- A knight with a broken sword.
- A hobbit.
- A wizard.
- An ordinary woman living an ordinary life doing perfectly ordinary things.
They all shared a common thing, that life gave them a path to follow. That path led to adventure. And something special.
They took the path shown them. What they found along the way made some of them rich. Others found great happiness, with or without love (or wealth). Others found a destiny more strange than they imagined, occasionally with the power to let them accomplish great things. Regardless, for each, the traveling and excitement eventually ended.
After which, the high and mighty — as well as the smallest and least important — lived happily ever after. Except for …
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Categories: Fiction, Humor, Marilyn Armstrong
I didn’t know there was a piglet involved.. 🙂 Happy ever after would be nice right now though… especially if all the travelling and excitement ended in a castle. 🙂
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Happy ever after – isn’t that we are striving for?….
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I don’t know anymore.
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How about the magic dragon? How’s he doing?
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He is busy puffing.
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