Rapunzel

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"Story of a Girl"

This is a story of a girl, for twelve years she hid from the world, because her hair was really long and blonde. The Prince absolutely loves her, when she smiles!

If you guessed the girl is Rapunzel you are right. If not, well you know. We all know about the story of Rapunzel right? No? OKAAY we are starting from square numero uno.

Once there lived a married couple. Wife (that was her name) was pregnant. Her most common craving was rosemary. The only place you could find rosemary was in the witch’s garden next door.

Day by day, week by week, her craving for rosemary increased more and more. It finally got bad enough that if she didn’t have some rosemary she felt she would die. So the husband made up his mind to fetch some from the witch’s house. They made some salad and it was soooo delicious that she wanted more. So that night the husband went back to the garden to take some more. The witch caught him and yelled, "HOW DARE YOU STEAL MY ROSEMARY!!!"

"Please," begged the husband, "Don’t hurt me, I only did it for my wife."

"This is acceptable, but it will cost you. When your child is born you must give it to me," said the ugly witch. The husband was so frantic that he said ok.

Before long the young girl was born. About two weeks after the baby was born, there came a knock at the door. Rappp. Rappp. "Oh," said Wife, "We are so far from town. I wonder who that could be."

The witch came bursting through the door. "Where’s the baby?!" She shouted. The witch grabbed the baby from the bassinet when she saw it. "…WAIT!" Husband shouted. He begged and pleaded all he could but she wouldn’t let the baby go.

The witch took the baby to her castle and named  her Rapunzel.

By the time she grew up Rapunzel was a very pretty young girl. Rapunzel had long blonde hair and baby blue eyes. She was the most charming girl in town. The witch didn’t want any boys to see Rapunzel or to fall in love. She decided the best thing to do was lock her up in a tower. This tower had no stairs, doorways and only window.

Everyday the old witch would come out and yell, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your long hair."When Rapunzel heard these words she would let down her hair for the witch to climb.

One day the prince was riding through the forest and he heard her melodious singing. Day after day, week after week he returned to hear her singing. About a month after he started listening, he was behind a tree and he saw the witch climb up Rapunzel’s hair. He thought to himself, "So that’s how you get up." The next day came and he yelled, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your long hair." Then her hair came tumbling down. Rapunzel got so frightened when he came in but then got to know him. Every day he came to see her.

One day the witch was climbing up her hair. Rapunzel shouted down, "I wish you would climb as fast as the prince. He got up in half the time!" "Oh? So the prince is coming to meet you?" The witch said in anger. "Opps" said Rapunzel in fear. Opps is right Rapunzel.

The next day: "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your long hair!" This was the witch talking.

"Coming, coming." Rapunzel knew that she was in trouble so she said it in a really distressed voice. So the witch climbed up. She took some scissors from her pocket and cut Rapunzel’s hair. She put it in a braid and nailed it to the wall. 

When the prince came up to the tower walls, He shouted out, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your long hair." The witch tumbled down the hair. The prince started climbing up. The witch cut the hair and then he fell to the ground in a patch of thorns. He scraped his eyes and became blind forever. So he thought. Years went by with the prince coming back to hear Rapunzel’s beautiful singing, since he couldn’t see her anymore. 

Then the witch let Rapunzel out.  When she got out of the tower, she saw the prince while walking through the forest. She saw that he was blind. Rapunzel started singing and he recognized it at once. He was so joyous. She shed a tear and it landed in his eyes. He was forever healed from his blindness. 

They got married in the Prince's castle and lived happily ever after.

THE END