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The world is so cruel to the innocent of heart. Such as the two children who came to my shop all that time ago. They were a sweet pair of twins, my little Hänsel and Gretel - cursed to a house with a rotten stepmother and a passive father.
It was a dark morning when they first wandered into my bakery. With hungry bellies and tired eyes as they tried to eat the sweets behind the windows. Their feet sore from following the glittering stones to town. Hurriedly, I brought them in and let them take their choice of meal.
When their father finally came to collect them - Oh, I should've given him what for, but alas; for the benefit of the children, I simply kneeled to them and told them that now that they knew their way to me, they could come visit for a meal anytime they needed.
I waved them off with an unease in my soul. To know sweet little things like them were hurting so… It drove me to ponder. And from that pondering, the idea for my magnum opus was born…