Once Upon a Time in 1628

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"Once upon a time I believed all kinds of things.
I believed in horses with horny horns
and even in horses with magnificent wings!
I thought at the very bottom of the garden
fairies giggled and would dance and play.
I thought that under every small bridge there lived a troll
and, when on my own, I most assuredly stayed well away.
It never occurred to me then, way back in 1628
that a fairy collecting teeth was a most curious beast.
The Sandman, Father Christmas, dragons and elves,
these now seem just as implausibly impossible at least.
I no longer believe in transmogrifying frogs
or that princes can only exist in threes.
The very idea of Rumplestiltskin just makes me howl.
I now know better than to believe in any of these.
But there is one thing that I believed in then
that even, no especially, today I still believe is true.
There are some who would say "It is just a fairytale"
but I really do believe in happy ever after without you."