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How Is The Brother's Grimm Modified The Story?

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We have all heard the infamous story of Rapunzel, the beautiful princess with long, flowing locks of hair that could extend down to the bottom of her tower from which she was forbidden to ever leave, and how the prince came to her, asked her to let down her hair, and he climbed up to her and saved her. However, this story is not entirely true; the Brother's Grimm modified the story slightly to save the poor prince some embarrassment. He was not the most intelligent gent--he deemed climbing up a tower via hair to be rational! (Perhaps he already had damage to his frontal lobes . . . ). Regardless, as he climbed up the golden locks, he became distracted by a bluebird and let go with one hand to reach out and touch it. Though Rapunzel warned him,

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