269-Hans Christian Andersen: What We Do With the Shadows
Myths and Legends
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Shadow Says Yes to the Princess
The princess asked the man, a shadow, to marry her. The writer could not believe that his own shadow had asked him to officially and forever flip rolls. For the first time in their hist together, maybe the first time ever in the writer's life, he stood up for himself. He called for the guards and threw on a jacket. When the castle guards arrived, they saw two identical men struggling against one another on the floor. In the end, the guard's subdued shadow, that is the fiance, pretending to be a man, was found out as being the realshadow. And after all, the princess was clearly seeing what she'd known for years.
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