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space. what her maids called the White Dream,
“Once there was, and there was not, a not even the man she loved. His name
princess as white as snow.” was Dane Hardt.
And Myrtle started her story: “Danehardt? What a name!” her friend
remarked with a big smile.
“Who tells the story here?” Myrtle asked.
“She was not always so white.
“Go on.”
Once she was as green as grass crackling
under your bare feet. As yellow as the giant “His name was Danehardt. He was a
sunflowers from her father. As pink as a wise knight, with a good disposition
baby, cooing. As brown as the majestic and a gentle nature. He was not really
beech trees in the lane. As orange as the brave and often had doubts about his
fragrant pumpkins of her cute granny. As decisions. Usually he went for the easiest
blue as the berries in his garden. As red solution. Actually I do not know why the
as his lips. Once the young queen was so Queen found him so special.”
colorful as the world. Once. Yes. Her friend blinked.
Until the red of his lips said “yes”. “In fact, the White Princess and sir
Her lover was marrying someone else. Danehardt did have a lot of interests in
When she heard this news, her colors common and both were nice, intelligent
faded in darkness of her soul, and suddenly and curious about the world, but
she was no longer the colorful princess, otherwise he was not so special. It is
but the White Princess. The colors of her even surprising that he had two suitors,
childhood memories were blurred into a namely the white queen and the rich
black hole, her smile was lost in a maze of baroness ... Doloria. “
misunderstanding and her heart was in a “Why did he chose Doloria? Was she
country where they had never been.” gorgeous? “
Her friend straightened, but did not “No… yes… maybe. I guess that Doloria
interrupt. was just better than she was. In many
“Only her most loyal maids knew about ways. More pretty. More intelligent. More
this disease -or that is how they called it. adventurous. More funny.”
Each day when she woke up, as white as “Or the White Princess has just a low self-
the night, they helped her to cover her esteem?” her friend remarked. “Did sir
whiteness. She sat before her mirror and Danehardt in fact ever know that she was
let her maids paint her lips red as rubins in love with him?”
and her eyes green as emeralds. They also “Well, that does not matter anymore…
dyed her hair and face with pigments because she got sick.”
from the Far East. She looked at herself “ So ... the White Princess got the White
in the mirror, for the whole time, and if Dream because of a broken heart,” her
she did not like what she saw -which friend whispered.
happened often- she pulled the mask
from her white face and let her maids “Yes, there was an article recently
start over again. It took a long time to look saying that people who are sad for a
the way that others, like her parents and long time have more chance to get the
their subjects, expected from her.. So they White Dream. It makes sense… that the
only saw her in the late hours of the day. White Princess got this disease because
Nobody saw that she was suffering from of unanswered love. When hearts are

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