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May 1st 2009, 5:26 pm

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Eva

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Re: once upon a time...

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Errr...Black font please...As if the blue torture wasn't enough...

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May 1st 2009, 5:27 pm

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Do as you're told, woman...

May 1st 2009, 5:31 pm

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Re: once upon a time...

So is fairy tale just a modern way of saying fable?

May 2nd 2009, 3:14 am

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Re: once upon a time...

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Originally Posted by IndieG

Well according to my kid only stories that end in "happily ever after" are fairy tales, not otherwise......lol

yeah, that's what mine say...but not all the fairy tales we've got end like that which is what started them asking, lol...

MM, xx

May 2nd 2009, 10:55 am

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yeah, that's what mine say...but not all the fairy tales we've got end like that which is what started them asking, lol...

MM, xx

My 8 year old nephew says that stories are for boys and fairy tales are for girls..........

May 2nd 2009, 10:57 am

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My 8 year old nephew says that stories are for boys and fairy tales are for girls..........

hahaha, i like it...that's my line from now on, thanks for making my life easier...

MM, xx

May 2nd 2009, 11:01 am

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hahaha, i like it...that's my line from now on, thanks for making my life easier...

MM, xx

Please to be of assistance, about time i made someone else's life easier as this board has mine!!!!!!

May 2nd 2009, 1:22 pm

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Re: once upon a time...

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Originally Posted by Eva

So was that Brother

Fairytales classically depict good truimphing over evil perhaps conditioning children with all the fluffy magic that the goodie is the hero and his way is the right way to go in life.
Stories p'haps are more of a reality check when kids are beginning to learn/observe that real life ain't a fairytale........pink for the faeries..

At least you saw it...