{"id":12455,"date":"2020-04-09T16:39:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.wordpress.com\/2020\/04\/09\/happily-ever-afters-not-what-they-seem-napowrimo-day-8\/"},"modified":"2020-04-09T16:39:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T11:09:54","slug":"happily-ever-afters-not-what-they-seem-napowrimo-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travellingthroughwords.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/09\/happily-ever-afters-not-what-they-seem-napowrimo-day-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Happily Ever Afters, Not What They Seem – #NaPoWriMo Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Happily-ever-afters mislead
The characters meet
Cat and mouse
Play hard to get
Intense chemistry
And the inevitable kiss
Fight ensues
And the inevitable make-up kiss
The story ends
What they don’t tell us
Is that the story continued on
And then there wasn’t a happy ending
Because one day they die
And it’s not their death that makes it sad
They died too old to still be happy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Tavleen<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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