The question I cannot help but ask is if they truly “lived happily ever after” or they are just happy to settle for something that is less than the total misery that had smothered their hopes out of existence in the first place

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Are they just so lost that any sliver of light is enough to go on? Maybe “happily ever after” for them is just getting out. Maybe “happily ever after” had nothing to do with the prince and just implied that there were able to move past the trauma in their soul or possibly they finally just let it swallow them up and lost who they ever were to begin with.

https://thestoryster.com/2020/10/27/the-lie-of-the-fairy-tale