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The Three Gateways
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The Three Gateways

A witchy modern fairy tale

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Eva Langston
Oct 17, 2022
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There once was a girl named Nadine who had eyes as blue as gumballs and hair as black as pavement. She lived with her mother and wicked stepfather in a small, yellow house by the river. The river was wide and brown, and on hot days it smelled like sewage. The smell wafted through Nadine’s neighborhood of old, crumbling houses and made everyone wish they had enough money to live somewhere else. 

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