Only the tragically misinformed would ever sigh over the night’s first star and wish for a real fairy-tale ending. Long before Julia Roberts made prostitution look so romantic and Disney sauteed the Little Mermaid in marshmallow fluff, fairy tales were full of unsettling transformations and traumatic bargains. Those authentic stories scratch anxieties and longings deep within us. Children, of course, know this, even as they’re gently redirected into the sanitized happily ever after.   
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