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My great-great-grandmother’s portrait hung in the university up until the Revolution. By then, the truth of their romance had been reduced to a simple fairy tale. And, while Cinderella and her prince did live happily ever after, the point, gentlemen, is that they lived.
— Ever After • 1998
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker says a real romance was flattened over time into a simple fairy tale. She then turns the cliché around: Cinderella and her prince did live happily ever after, but what matters is that they truly lived. Their story was about real lives, not a neat legend.
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