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Once upon a time, there was a lonely prince. He lived in a lonely room, in a lonely castle,

on a lonely cliff that overlooked a lonely kingdom. You may think that's an awful lot of lonely,

and safe to say, the prince would surely agree with you. He hadn't always been so lonely. When he was a boy, his father,

the king, would take him hunting and fishing and riding and all sorts of exciting things. They would

leave before the sun showed her face on the horizon and stay out until it set below the cliffs,

just having adventures and meeting interesting people. His mother, the

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