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The Wisconsin Woods: An Injustice For A Fairytale

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The Wisconsin woods were big. They were dark. And they were spooky. But in these dark woods was a little house and in it were two little girls.
They wore white nighties that came down to their feet. Both girls said that they were made of silk and they wore them with little wooden crowns and pretended that they were princesses in a golden castle. Of course there were arguments on who was to be the head princess, ruler of all, but that didn’t matter most of the time. And when their mother told them it was bedtime, they begged her for a fairytale about princesses in silken gowns in a golden castle far, far, away, where everything was perfect. So they closed their eyes and listened with delight to their mother’s words and the world far away that

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