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Today's story is called The Princess Magic Mirror, an adaptation of a traditional Portuguese folk tale written for you by Daniel Hines.

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The Prince's Magic Mirror

Once upon a time, in a far away kingdom, a prince named Tomas was looking for a bride. And it wasn't going well.

Try as he might, the prince couldn't find someone who liked him for him. Instead, it was an endless parade of young noble women who wanted to be queen one day and just viewed him as a path to the throne.

Like he was a set of finely carpeted stairs instead of a whole person with a whole personality.

A lot of the suitors assumed Tomas would be shallow, because many princes were shallow. It was a side effect of being raised in a castle and being given everything you wanted whenever you wanted it.

When you didn't have to work for things, you ended up not really appreciating them.

Luckily for him, Tomas wasn't like that though.

His parents, the wise old king and queen, had done everything in their power to make sure their son was a good, kind, well-rounded person.

From the time he was little, he would spend time with all the workers of the castle. He mended clothes with the tailors and beat them clean with the washers.

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