Aug
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8th
Happily ever after…the big lie. Those three insidious words repeated again and again promising myself and a gazillion other little girls that someday, sure as the sunset, a man prettier than ourselves would sweep us away to live our lives forever and a day…blah…blah…blah, never once mentioning the years of quiet desperation that surely followed. Which is why I pray with all my soul, that whomever invented the lethal mantra ‘happily ever after’, died penniless, face down in the gutter, with cats gnawing on his ears.
— Mary Shannon
