And They All Lived Happily Ever After The End

And why we seem to need our Fairy Tale Endings despite recent ‘Trends’ that don’t give us ‘Happy Endings”

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I recently re-watched the first Shrek movie (for perhaps the third time) and was struck by how the “Fairy Tale ending” was both ‘realized’ as well as turned on its head. Even though this was a rather twisted parody of fairy tales, there was still that Happy Ending. (Of sorts. Not…