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“Princess” is Distress

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  Once upon a time, Halloween was coming up - a day that is supposed to be filled with joy, fear, and candy - and yet, this little girl is sobbing in an Aurora dress. She seems oddly at peace as she cries, living through a dramatic mxmtoon moment (referring to “crying in my prom dress”). What’s her problem? Well, she always played princesses at recess with her best friend at the time, whose last name was Arora. Obviously, her friend acted as Aurora, and because blue was the opposite of pink in this girl’s mind and Cinderella wears blue, this girl acted as Cinderella. Due to this, she wanted to dress up as Cinderella for Halloween, but her parents bought her this costume instead. They probably had their reasons or did not know she liked Cinderella at the time, but her 4-year-old brain failed to understand, or did not think that she had to understand. After this stage of quietly crying to herself and thinking she was facing the biggest problem in the world, anger and rebellion began ...