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I think that I will dedicate this chapter.

Dedicated to: You who read this.

Sorry, that seemed kind of stupid. But I mean it.

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Rapunzel, An Unhappy Hermit

The woman looked at the child sitting on her lap and

sighed. This was the next hermit in the line. She looked at

her servant.

"Go get the witch woman."

He did.

"Go pick seven heads of lettuce."

He did.

"Hello witch woman. I want you to train my daughter in the

art of hermit-hood. I will give you four heads of lettuce

if you will do this."

"Uh huh," said the witch woman. Then she emitted a three

foot long stream of drool.

"Eww!! Take all seven!! And the child!" The woman thrust

her daughter at the witch woman who just smiled happily and

took a big chunk out of the lettuce.

"Mmm."

The witch woman took the girl and walked with her to a

tower. Then she locked her inside.

"You shall be a hermit!" The witch woman declared and

locked the tower and threw away the key. "Oh, and by the

way, I think that I will name you after this really good

lettuce. Your name shall be Rapunzel!"

Then the witch woman left the child in the tower, coming

once a week to replenish the food supply and make sure that

the child bathed.

Rapunzel grew into a lovely woman, with loads of long

blonde hair, sparkling blue eyes and beautiful red lips.

She was also very smart, since she was a hermit, and had

nothing to do but read the dictionary all day.

As the years went by, the witch woman came every week to

make sure that Hermit Rapunzel had enough food and to make

sure that she bathed. Since she had stupidly thrown away

the key, the woman climbed up Rapunzel's long blonde hair,

after saying the password (which cannot be revealed).

One day, a dashing prince rode up to the tower. He had

heard Rapunzel singing to the birds and contemplating the

mysteries of life.

"Oh fair maiden," the dashing prince intoned when he caught

a look at her. "Wouldst thou marry me?"

"Wha-who? Who are you?" Rapunzel asked, because she was not

used to having strange men propose to her.

"I am Prince Fabio," said Prince Fabio.

"Oh, that's nice. I'm Rapunzel." Rapunzel did not know that

she should not give out any personal information to

strangers, because she had never heard of stranger

danger. "Well, anyway, Prince Fabio, I will not marry you

on the grounds that I don't know you and you could be a

murderer for all I know. So I won't marry you. Good bye."

Now Prince Fabio did not take this well, and he stormed the

tower, opening the door with a key that he had found along

his travels. Once inside, he picked up a screaming Hermit

Praunzel and left. He tied her to his horse, trying not to

trip over her ridiculously long hair.

He married her when he got back to the castle, and she did

not appreciate this at all.

Now she was Princess Rapunzel, instead of Hermit Rapunzel,

and she much preferred the latter. As they lay together in

bed that night, she strangled him with her hair, since it

left no finger prints.

In the morning, she calmly announced that the Prince was

dead. His parents died from shock, since they were very old

anyway, and not a major important part of the story.

Rapunzel took over the kingdom, and lived happily ever

after as Queen Rapunzel, Hermit.

She kept to the tower room in her castle, took only

consorts and never married, and eventually gave her own

daughter to the witch woman to be trained in the art of

Hermit-Hood.

The kingdom's population took its fashion sense from its

Queen, and they all became Hermits. In the end, it turned

out to be a kind of utopia, and they all lived happily ever

after.

The End.