This is a true story of a woman who had to look at the world as if it were a story for otherwise her gaze was too direct to be tolerated by absolute strangers.
Every time she saw someone of interest she hastily mumbled the words “Once upon a time” and then she looked at them as if recounting a found memory with far away eyes. This is how she became a well-loved visitor in the company of others.
Then one day, mesmerized by the bright lights of a shopping precinct she forgot her lines and found herself colliding with the many strings of people that seemed to converge in her path as if it were at that point and this point alone that the present moment could be found.
Such a lot of company all of a sudden that she clean forgot herself and danced a jig right there in the middle of the shopping precinct to the tunes of an accordionist.
The next day the two were married and apart from the words “I do” their silent bliss has never been broken by those distant words, “Once upon a time”.
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