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Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a young Prince lived in a shining castle. Although he had everything his heart desired, the Prince began to feel weak and sick.
But then, one winter's night, an old beggar man came to the castle and offered him a single rose and treatment for his sickness in return for shelter from the bitter cold.
Curious by this, the Prince acceded at the gift, and accepted the old man in.
Once inside the castle, the old man warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for not everything is what it seems. But it was too late, the old man's kindness melted away, to reveal an ugly wizard.
The Prince was put under a hard torturous time under the hands of the wizard, until one day he was defeated by the Prince and the people working on the castle.
As punishment, the wizard cured the Prince from his sickness, but transformed him into a hideous deformed man, and placed a powerful spell on the castle, and all who lived there.
Ashamed of his monstrous form, the beast concealed himself inside his castle, with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world.
The Rose the wizard had offered, was truly an enchanted one, which would bloom for many years.
If he could learn to love another and earn their love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time.
As the years passed, he fell into despair, and lost all hope, for who could ever learn to love...
A Beast?
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