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Maybe it's coincidence, but my favorite fairy tale didn't have a happy ending, it had a very sad one.
The protagonist is on a beach and a beautiful mermaid beckons him. He immediately falls for her and goes into the ocean, assured by her that nothing will happen to him as long as they are together in the sea. She hands him a box,saying to never open it, but he must own it nevertheless.
After a while, he gets lonely for his home and family and she agrees to let him go back for a short time. He goes back to find no one he knew, his home gone....
Depressed, he sits on the shore and, finding the little box in a pocket, opens it.
A whirl of ghostly dust rises and as it does, he grows instantly older and older, dies and turns to dust....
So no, I never thought of happy endings.....
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