once upon a time in a kingdom far far away ..........

Once upon a time there was a Prince who, through no
fault of his own was cast under a spell by an evil
witch. The curse was that the Prince could speak only
one word each year. However, he could save up the
words so that if he did not speak for a whole year,
then the following year he was allowed to speak two
words. (This was before the time of letter writing or
sign language.)

One day he met abeautiful princess (ruby lips, golden
hair, sapphire eyes,) and fell madly in love. With the
greatest difficulty he decided to refrain from
speakingfor two whole years so that he could look at
her and say "my darling". But at the end of the two
years he wished to tell her that he loved her.

Because of this he waited three more years without
speaking (bringing the total number of silent years to
5).But at the end of these five years he realized that
he had to ask her to marry him. So he waited ANOTHER
four years without speaking.

Finally as the ninth year of ! silence ended, his joy
knew no bounds. Leading the lovely princess to the
most secluded and romantic place in that beautiful
royal garden the prince heaped a hundred red roses on
her lap, knelt before her, and taking her hand in his,
said huskily, "My darling,I love you! Will you marry
me?" And the princess tucked a strand of golden hair
behind a dainty ear, opened her sapphire eyes in
wonder, and parting her ruby lips, said:

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......Well, guess what she said ...........

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......come on, guess what could she have

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said..............

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...........well, she said..............

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"Pardon?"