Once Upon A Time

I started writing what might become my second novel, this way:

It’s not always easy to tell where a story truly begins; any story, all stories perhaps, this story for sure. Even as children, when the beginning seems simple enough to detect with “Once upon a time”, we still ask questions: How old is the Princess? Where was Rumplestiltskin born? Why were there forty thieves and does Ali Baba have any sisters as well as a bother, Kassim?

We'll see.
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