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I’m sure you remember the stories. We all do. Unable to fall asleep, we would pester our mothers, our fathers, even our grandparents, until they read us those same fairy tales over and over again. True love’s kiss, and how it brought Snow White back to her beloved Charming’s arms. How Cinderella, despite the insistence that she could be nothing more than a lowly housemaid, met fortune’s favor at the hands of her Fairy Godmother. The classics that our television played endlessly, that our cassette players nearly ate from being rewound and started all over again, to see how Belle saw the beauty in her Beast, how Prince Eric and Ariel overcame obstacles that seemed nearly insurmountable and succeeded. Each time introduced us to new splendors, old pleasure, and reminded us that it’s okay to believe.
 

What if I told you that you should believe? That everything you ever saw in those films, read in those tales, happened to exist elsewhere? A realm of imagination, of magic, beyond size and scope, each of those princes, those princesses, those queens and dastardly villains, lived and fought, loved and lost, much like each of us? You’re thinking it’s impossible that such a thing could exist, but you’re forgetting the most important truth: those fairy tales taught us that anything is possible. Even the possibility that they do, in fact, exist beyond our pages, beyond our televisions. Please, if you don’t believe me, hop into the hat, and see the wonderous lands that lie on the other side... 
 

If you’ve traveled this far you may yet see the splendors you never thought could be true. You could see Robin Hood saving the day, you could see Snow White trying to save her kingdom and her people from her Wicked Stepmother, or you could even see Jack as the beanstalk opens up a realm that no human, even at the hands of magic, ever thought a reality. However, before you travel too far, be warned. These are not the fairy tales your mother told you, no. These are lives, both innocent and savage, kind and beastial, and they cannot be trusted to the stories you heard as the Sandman left his kiss upon your sweet brow. You may even be shocked to find that Hook is the hero of his tale, and that Little Red Riding Hood was hardly the timid little child that they made her out to be.
 

Keep your ear to the ground, and your mind open to the infinite, and you may make it to see all that you’ve only dreamed of. Welcome, one and all, to the Enchanted Forest.

 

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