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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave I wished for impossible things. It was never going to have been a fairy tale for us. There are no fairy tales about two princesses. - Quote by Erin Bow

I wished for impossible things. It was never going to have been a fairy tale for us. There are no fairy tales about two princesses.

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