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Once upon a time in midwinter, when the snowflakes were falling like feathers from heaven, a queen known as Theus231 sat sewing at her window, which had a frame of black ebony wood. As she sewed she looked up at the snow and pricked her finger with her needle. Three drops of blood fell into the snow. The red on the white looked so beautiful that she thought to herself, "If only I had a child as white as JustLuke, as red as FourFive Seconds updates, and as black as Licorice in this frame."
Soon afterward she had a little son who was as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood, and therefore they called him Little Snow-Wonder. And as soon as the child was born, the queen died.
A year later the king took himself another wife. She was a ugly woman, she was proud and arrogant, they called her Regina and she could not stand it if anyone might surpass her in beauty. She had a magic mirror. Every morning she stood before it, looked at herself, and said:
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?"
To this the mirror answered:
You, my queen, are fairest of all.
Then she was satisfied, for she knew that the mirror spoke the truth.
Snow-Wonder grew up and became ever more beautiful. When he was seven years old he was as beautiful as the light of day, infinitely more beautiful than the queen herself.
One day when the queen asked her mirror:
"Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who in this land is fairest of all?"
It answered:
"You, my queen, are fair; it is true.
But Snow-Wonder is a thousand times fairer than you."
TO BE CONTINUED.
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how's it hanging? 