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ouabhs · 8 months

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jacks never had a bad track. “Glad to know you’re thinking about me when you kiss your husband.” BANGER. “But for tonight, let me pretend you’re mine.” ICONIC. “I’d probably kill another man if I found him with you like this” LIFE CHANGING. “There is nothing of equal value to me”. UNMATCHED.

#acftl #acftl theories #caraval #evajacks #evangeline fox #jacks x evangeline #ouabh #tbona spoilers #the ballad of never after #jacks prince of hearts #stephanie garber #a curse for true love

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nvanne11 · 6 months

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Evajacks endgame

I don’t know if anyone noticed but if you look at the vision about Jacks that made Aurora put a curse on him, it says he’ll fall in love with a Fox. With a capital F. So it’s not just an animal, it’s a surname. Eva’s surname 💔 🦊

#acftl spoilers #a curse for true love #acftl #evajacks #jacks x evangeline #evangeline fox #ouabh 3 #ouabh #acftl theories #tbona #jacks of the hollow #jacks prince of hearts

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marinareads25 · 6 months

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ACFTL fav moments!

*ACFTL SPOILERS AHEAD*

- Jacks fucking up Apollo!!! MAJOR SLAY!

- Evangeline slapping Apollo!! That’s so mean… do it again!🤪

- Apollo turning into an ugly tree! Also major slay! (Can u tell I hate this mf?)

- Jacks watching Evangeline sleep awwww

- Jacks carrying Eva’s letter with him everywhere PLS THIS HURT

- Jacks best day being one of the days he spent with Evangeline in the Hollow IM SCREAMING

- Jacks crying blood tears when Evangeline confesses she loves him OUCHHH😭

- Chaos and Lala tension?!?!? Like would you two just kiss already?!

- Jacks becoming immortal because he did not want Chaos to go through it alone😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 he said if my friends jump off a cliff, I will too!🤪

- Jacks confessing he lied and that he did want another ending to their story!!!

- Jacks wanting to tell Eva he would go anywhere with her STOPPP😭😭😭

- the fact that jacks’ heart is described as rays of sunlight, colorful, golden and iridescent!!!! SOMEBODY SEDATE ME⁉️

#acftl #evajacks #evangeline fox #jacks prince of hearts #ouabh #the ballad of the archer and the fox #ouabh 3 #a curse for true love #acftl theories #stephanie garber

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waytoooldforthissh · 6 months

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Breaking Jacks' curse and mine

One of the main comments I’ve seen on ACFTL is that there were lots of questions that did not feel answered. Many of those involve Jacks’ curse.

The curse:

I, personally, am also cursed. I am cursed to wake up in the middle of the night with this stupid answer. and spend an hour hunting down quotes.

I don’t know what Stephanie intended, but I do think the answer helped.

The answer, obviously, requires so many spoilers

The kissing curse on Jacks was broken by Vampire Venom in OUABH when Jacks pushed Evangeline out of the way of Luc.

Relevant Events

Jacks hair is blue when we meet him in the North after the events of Finale. He has a scar where Tella stabbed him. There is no mention of whether his heart beat after the stabbing. Ch 14.

He uses his poison blood to “break Apollo’s spell” (poison Apollo) after the wedding. Kissing curse presumably still in play. Ch. 34

Enter Luc

Luc comes to Chaos to get Vampire Venom to cure his unsexy scars. Ch. 42.

Luc realizes, for the first time, that he must have had a love spell on him. Ch. 42.

Vampire Venom cured Luc of Marisol’s spell

Jacks pushes Evangaline out of the way of Luc, getting infected with Vampire venom himself. Ch. 42.

Shortly after, Evangaline notices that Jacks’ hair is gold again. Ch. 43

“His heart. It was really beating.” Ch. 46 Evangeline is shocked to hear Jacks’ heart beating. Its the first mention of it since his intro in the North.

And these next points are critical AND SPOILERS:

One way or another, Aurora placed the curse on Jacks. Its not a mythical curse placed by Fate. Some jealous bitch like Maarisol just dropped a spell on him.

JACKS DOES NOT KISS ANYONE IN OUABH, TBONA, or ACFTL *UNTIL* HE KISSES EVANGaLINE

He tries, but Evangeline stops him at the party is TBONA.

Aurora’s kissing curse was cured by the vampire venom.

OUABH, Ch. 1.

In ACFTL we learn that there are two versions of the curse. Jacks’ cure works either way.

Aurora says:

She is about as trustworthy as a tarantula, but that story curse does like to change endings.

If Aurora really did curse Jacks’ heart only to beat for someone who could never love him, then Tella survived because she didn’t love him, but Aurora’s petty curse was broken just like Marisol’s love spell by the vampire venom in OUABH.

But, Jacks’ cure also fits the original curse:

Not capable of love because his heart stopped

Only one person can make it work, his one true love

His kiss was fatal to all but her

His only weakness

Like all prophecies and curses in stories, you got to read them a little backwards. Evangaline was Jacks’ weakness. Without thinking, he jumped in front of Luc, pulling her out of danger. His selfless protection of her caused him to be exposed to vampire venom, the strongest known cure. The vampire venom restarting his heart after he was stabbed in Finale. And, as far as he is concerned, Evangeline is the only one who can survive his kiss because she is the only one he has or will kiss.

This version is satisfying to me, because its Jacks’ selfless act that leads to his freedom. He does not know it yet, but she has already saved him.

Like Jacks, I have wasted my morning writing this for others and I am also free.

#acftl #a curse for true love #acftl spoilers #acftl theories #tbona #the ballad of never after #ouabh #ouabh spoilers #evangeline fox #jacks prince of hearts #evangeline x jacks #evajacks #send help #good omens spoilers

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myalonyalala · 6 months

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The Actual Heartbreak of Broken Heart Trilogy is what the readers feels after the series ended

After months only think about evajacks, wondering if they can be endgame, making delulu theories, searching for picts on pinterest, listening only to the archer, miss americana and the heartbreak prince, war of heart, amm ... And now they have sailed

I can feel the hole in my chest. Like ... Im happy for them, but how about me now? 😭

Im standing between, "i still want to do evajask-ing" and "i have to move on"

What should i do now

#jacks of the hollow #ouabh #jacks prince of hearts #jacks x evangeline #evangeline fox #acftl #a curse for true love #acftl theories #tbona #prince of hearts #evajacks #evajacks endgame believer #evajacks-ing

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booksash · 6 months

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ACTFL QUOTES!MINOR SPOILERS!

I asked some of my Goodreads friends,who read ACTFL,to share some quotes from the book.One quote is a little bit spoilery,but i will put it at the end of the post,if you do not want to read it.Here are the quotes:

"You are not in danger.I'm here because a friend of ours needs help- your help.He's about to make a horrible decision and you need to change his mind before it's too late to save him."

"-I would have thought you like bad ideas.

-Only when they're mine."

"But soon there was more light than dark.A world of bright as if the sky and the ground has switched places and now Earth was covered in shimmering stars."

"It's my fault.It's too late now."

”But just because he was all she had didn't mean that she needed to give him all the power. "

”Evangeline spun to the side and slapped him hard across the face. The sound of her hand hitting his cheek echoed through the inn, loud, cracking, and satistying."

“"Please, Little Fox, remember."

"Her hope might have been powerful, but it wasn't magic. It wasn't enough.“

"I just forgot to breathe."

"We can go wherever you want, little fox."

" "I know I seem naive," Evangeline pressed on. "I know my faith in love might appear foolish. I also know it might not be enough. But I'm not doing this because I believe I'll win. I'm actually a little afraid I'm going to lose. I no longer think love is a guarantee of victory or of happily ever after. But I think it's a reason to fight for those things." "

"It was only a flash—but her cheeks felt flushed.Apollo smiled, clearly thinking he was the reason."

MINOR SPOILERS!

"She was safe in her bed. She'd be even safer when he left her. But he was too selfish to leave just yet."

"She was better off not knowing him. But he was enough of a bastard to hate that she’d forgotten."

"He wanted her to look at him, just once, and know him the way she had before."

"I lied," he said. "I do wish that we could have had a different ending."

"And she wanted nothing more than for him to stay."

"He'd said he wished their story could have had a different ending, as if they'd already reached the final page.But Evangeline wanted more pages"

"Bastard. Murderer. Monster.I hate you, Evangeline wanted to say."

SPOILERS!

"She was choosing Jacks.She was choosing wrong."

"But maybe the reason for the warning about falling in love with Fates wasn't because loving a Fate could never work, but because it was so much harder. Nearly impossible."

Yes ,i am a monster.I enjoy hurting people.I like blood.I like pain.I am a monster,but wether you remember it or not,i'm your monster."

#the ballad of never after #a curse for true love #acftl #jacks prince of hearts #jacks x evangeline #ouabh #evajacks #evangeline fox #stephanie garber #tbona #acftl theories #tbona spoilers #tella dragna #evangeline x jacks #jacks #acftl spoilers

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onceuponaneverafter · 6 months

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Let's Talk About Jacks's Apples

...and especially their COLORS. I wanted to figure out what they could mean, so I made a spreadsheet!

First, DISCLAIMERS:

MAJOR spoilers for OUABH and TBONA + the Caraval series!

This post was written BEFORE ACFTL and does not contain information or spoilers from it.

This post is based on my interpretations and observations, all of them may not be perfectly accurate. The conclusions I make are my theories, not necessarily canon information.

When I reference page numbers, they're from my OUABH UK paperback and TBONA UK hardcover - it's possible they're a bit off for you if you have different editions of the books.

This is a long post, so grab a snack and get comfortable!

I hope you enjoy reading! 🍎

Table Of Contents

Introduction

Why Apples?

A Detailed Look Into The Apples (= explaining everything I say I'll explain later)

The Colors

Where Do The Apples Come From

Conclusions/TL;DR

This is a long post, so here you can see what's coming and skip over to what interests you most :)

Introduction

Throughout the OUABH series, there are 14 scenes in total where Jacks is holding an apple in his hand (sometimes eating them, sometimes not) while Evangeline is there to witness it. All of those apples are unnaturally colored. To look for connections between them, I made a spreadsheet:

For sake of clarity, I will be discussing 13 total apples instead of 14 - I believe the "undescribed" apple (its color is not explicitly stated in the scene) is the same as White Apple #5, but it appears in two separate scenes, so both are included here. I will get into this later.

The spreadsheet contains various details about the apples, such as what Jacks does while holding them, when he picks them up (or if he's already holding them when they're described), what happens to them (dropped somewhere etc.), how he feels during the scene, etc. I will discuss these later in this post.

Then I realized he also has some apples in Legendary and Finale, so I made another list of the ones he has while Tella is present:

Here's a summary of all the apples:

That would make 20 apples in total, half of them being white.

Now let's go over some relevant context! Then I will get to analyzing what these colors mean and what kind of connections I found between the apples, I promise.

Why Apples?

Before we do a deep dive into the details, let's go over the basics on why Jacks keeps eating the apples. The most popular theory (if it can even be called a theory, it's basically canon) is based on what LaLa tells Evangeline in OUABH:

"When we [Fates] feel, it's intense and consuming. It devours us and drives us. And the strongest of our feelings is always the urge to be that which we were made to be." –OUABH page 270

She proceeds to explain that when she sews wedding dresses, it helps her with that urge, and to say that for Jacks it's similar – he has the desire to find his true love, and supposedly that's the one person his kiss doesn't kill. So, according to LaLa's logic, the apples help him with that. It makes a lot of sense, and everything he physically does with the apples makes more sense in light of it.

When Jacks is first introduced to the Caraval series, he is described eating an apple. While I believe the theory above is true, it was also interesting to notice that he seems to already be holding the apple when he meets Tella practically by chance. In fact, there are only four times he ever picks up an apple during a scene, and they are all during the OUABH series. I will get more into it later.

In OUABH, Jacks is described to have countless apples and apple cores in his rooms and offices, so we don't know how many he eats and why when Evangeline isn't around him. However, I found that he almost never touches Evangeline while holding an apple. (With sort of the exception of the silver apple, where he touches his dagger to her lips, and the blue apple, which he was holding before stopping Evangeline from taking the luck stone back from Chaos.)

Now, this could just be for practical reasons, but he touches Evangeline in about 21 of the 25 (I focused on the apples so this may not be the exact count) scenes where he doesn't have an apple and only in 6 of the 14 scenes where he has an apple, and in 2 of them the touch is barely there or brief and initiated by Evangeline.

An interesting comparison is how he does touch Tella while holding an apple (like Blue Apple #1 and White Caraval Apple #2), so it definitely isn't purely about logistics. Maybe it's related to him thinking she's his true love, that's the greatest difference I can think of. It is also noteworthy that he doesn't eat any apples while in the Hollow, which Evangeline also notices (TBONA 284).

With the theory above in mind, the way Jacks touches his apples is pretty straightforward:

He tosses them when he's in a good mood or needs to distract himself

Him biting them is practically his version of self-control

He drops them when things aren't so fun anymore or there's a clear mood shift (I will discuss this a bit more later).

He stabs two apples in total: the Silver Apple and White OUABH Apple #4. the first time he tells Evangeline how Apollo would be eternally heartbroken if she called off the engagement, the second time he tells Evangeline that the Archer ends up killing the Fox. And what unites these? Great heartbreak.

A Detailed Look Into The Apples

Or in other words, let's get into everything I said I would discuss later. After this, we'll look more into the apple colors.

The Undescribed Apple

I believe that White Apple #5, the apple Jacks holds in his hand before he and Evangeline leave to LaLa's engagement party, is the same as the apple that he picks up in the next scene, in the carriage as they travel - its color is not described, but the narration leads to the assumption that this apple is already familiar to the reader:

"Jacks leaned back in his seat and picked up his apple" –TBONA page 184

13 is also a more meaningful number than 14 (and the total count of all apples would be 20 instead of 21), so even though the total number might be purely coincidental, it also could be a fun intentional detail.

Caraval vs. OUABH

There are some very interesting parallels between apples in Legendary/Finale and apples in OUABH/TBONA.

First, we have the blue apple (in Legendary) that Jacks ends up dropping into a fireplace (see chart below). The only other apple that he specifically drops into fire is the very last white apple in TBONA. Before he drops the blue apple, Tella says that nothing could make her fall in love with him. Before he drops the white apple, Evangeline suggests that maybe Jacks could find another true love.

Second, every apple is either last seen still in his hand or dropped on the floor/ground (or fire), except for two: the sparkling white one in Finale (in Tella's dream again) and the pink one in OUABH, which he tosses to Tella and Evangeline. He directly encourages Tella to taste the white apple, and he tells Evangeline that she might need a snack. In terms of color, the sparkling white apple is especially interesting – I will look into the sparkling later along with the colors.

"Jacks picked up his apple"

The main difference between the Caraval and OUABH apples - and the one thing that keeps messing up my theories - is that during the Caraval series, Jacks never picks up an apple during a scene, he is always already holding one when the scene begins (see chart above). However, during OUABH and TBONA, he picks up four apples in total. And they are all white.

White Apple #1: Meeting Evangeline for the first time

White Apple #3: Evangeline says she'd stab Jacks if she got the chance to

White Apple #5: Evangeline forbids Jacks from killing people at LaLa's party

White Apple #7: Jacks lets go of Evangeline and shuts off from her, he's about to tell her the truth about planning to go back in time

All of them are different in terms of why exactly he picks up the apple, but there is more or less a shift in tone/topic of their conversation during all of these scenes.

The Colors

White Apples

I think that white apples are the "default" color, and/or they represent focusing on what's important.

They make up half of the apples Jacks has, and all of the apples he spontaneously picks up are white. So, if something like his emotions or circumstances affect the apple colors (which I think is at least somewhat the case), it makes sense for white to be the basic color – and what would be a better "default" apple than the one who reminds him not to get distracted.

Even though the apple he tosses to Tella is sparkling white, I don't think the color represents her because he was holding a white apple before he met Tella. He couldn't have been thinking of her, but he most likely had plans that he was thinking over as he was hoping to take the throne from Elantine.

Black Apples

I originally thought the black color could mean bad intentions or regret, but I'm now quite sure it represents doing whatever it takes to get what he wants. The context surrounding the black apples highlights this:

Black Apple #1: Jacks offers his help in exchange for controlling Tella's emotions. He wants to find true love more than anything, and this is his last attempt to make Tella fall for him.

Black Apple #2: He's controlling Apollo in order to make him propose to Evangeline. He needs it, again, in order to reach his goal – only this time he's planning to go back in time. Still to find true love, though.

Black Apple #3: This one stands out a bit from the other two. Jacks brings Evangeline to Chaos' castle so she can be healed after Apollo shot her. Here the black apple might symbolize doing anything to keep Evangeline alive (he also needs her alive, so that checks out, but at this point I don't think it's just that), and possibly his reluctance to either ask Chaos for help or put Evangeline through being infected with vampire venom.

Blue Apples

Blue apples seem to represent happiness and success, because we tend to see them after something went just like Jacks wanted. This could also be connected to his eye color.

Blue Apple #1: It's the first apple we see after Tella didn't die of his kiss, and he's obviously more than happy about that.

Blue Apple #2. He got into Tella's dream, for the second time, and he had successfully tricked her into the "marriage thing" before.

Blue Apple #3. He is holding this one right after Evangeline agreed to open the Valory Arch, while the apple he held in the previous scene (only five pages earlier) was white.

The Golden Apple

The apples that there are just one of are the trickiest because there's less context to go by, but I think the golden apple represents Tella. It's the first one we see in his hand after the events of Finale, and Tella's hair color is close enough to it. She is also a princess now, which the color gold could also represent.

It's worth mentioning that it could also be tied to failure, heartbreak, or Jacks's own hair color (as it is often described as golden). He also lives in the North now, known as Lord Jacks, and he's "friends" (?) with Apollo, a prince, so it could be related to that as well.

The Silver Apple

I think the silver apple is like a "milder" version of the blue apple, in which case the apple representing happiness would definitely be intentionally the same color as his eyes: The Caraval Wiki describes his eye color as "silver-blue".

When Jacks has the silver apple, Evangeline has got married to Apollo just like he wanted, but everything isn't perfect yet. He's quite content, but it isn't quite as big satisfaction as when he has a blue apple. However, because Evangeline asked him to meet, the apple's color could also represent for example curiosity.

The Pink Apple

Because of Evangeline's hair color, the pink apple seems to intuitively represent her. Not only that, he's just spent the night holding her before he appears with the pink apple in hand, so it just makes a lot of sense to me. This is also the apple he tossed to her.

The Purple Apple

I've had the most trouble with the purple apple. It being the apple he holds after talking with Scarlett and the scene leading to Tella's discovery that his heart beats, and the only purple apple during any book and scene, I don't even know where to start.

While basic color symbolism is connected to the apple colors loosely at most, purple as a symbol for royalty, nobility, and power could make sense if he wanted to emphasize those qualities while talking to Scarlett. Purple is also associated with mystery, and with us and Tella not finding out immediately why he met with Scarlett, it could also be a storytelling element.

Bonus: Sparkling/shimmering Apples

There are some apples that deserve a special mention, and that's the ones that are described as sparkling or shimmering.

White Caraval Apple #3, "sparkling white": This is the apple that Jacks gives to Tella (in her dream), urging her to taste it.

Black Apple #3, "shimmering black": And this apple is in TBONA, when Jacks brings Evangeline to Chaos' castle to be healed.

The only similarity between them that I've found so far is that they both stand out from the other white and blue apples: the sparkling white apple is the only white apple that Jacks gives to someone else, and the shimmering black apple is the third one that stands out to me (see "Black Apples" above).

Where Do The Apples Come From

A very good and for now unanswered question is where Jacks gets the apples from. Does he pick them from a tree? What tree? What color are they, do they start off as natural apples or maybe white? What makes an apple something other than their default color? For these questions, I don't have solid theories yet, only speculation.

We're all obsessed with how intensely Fates feel when they do feel something (*cough* the end of TBONA *cough*), but I also think that it could have something to do with the apples, at least some of them. When Jacks feels something or spends a lot of time thinking of something, maybe it could somehow affect the apples' colors? Some of the apples seem to be connected to his emotions, such as the blue ones. No apples are seen changing colors and some apples seem to not have a direct connection to his emotions, though, so there is little evidence to support this.

Conclusions

To summarize everything I went over above,

There are 20 apples in total that Jacks is seen holding throughout every scene he is in, seven of them during the Caraval series and 13 during OUABH and TBONA.

What Jacks does with his apples (tossing, biting, picking up, dropping) is connected to his emotions.

The apples have different colors that I believe represent different things: white (10 of 20, focusing on what's important), black (3 of 20, doing whatever it takes), blue (3 of 20, happiness), gold (1 of 20, possibly Tella? multiple possibilities), silver (1 of 20, possibly happiness mixed with something else), pink (1 of 20, Evangeline?), and purple (1 of 20, power? nobility? mystery?).

The origin of the apples is for now unknown, as is the reason for each color (both the colors' meanings and how they take on the different colors).

With all that said, there is quite much room for interpretation, especially in terms of the apple colors. My theories aren't the only correct ones, and I do not wish to present them that way. As I stated in the beginning, I might have overlooked details or noted some down inaccurately. The purpose of this post was to share my findings and to have fun theorizing!

Let's hope that we get some actual answers for these in ACFTL and that the books treat us kindly <3 Please do not give me any spoilers, not on the topic of apples or anything else, I'm actively trying to avoid them!

If you read this far, THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I poured my heart into this research and this analysis, and I'm so happy if at least one person besides myself enjoys looking at my little findings. <3 Here, have an apple as a reward: 🍎

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ouabhs · 7 months

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evangeline’s mind is really in the gutter sometimes like she seems so innocent then I remember how she said she wanted jacks to stop her struggling and rip chaos off her so that he could pin her down instead.. or when she said it was hard to care that jacks had just been touching another girl because he knew exactly how to touch her

girl do you need a minute? 😭

#acftl #evajacks #ouabh #acftl theories #caraval #evangeline fox #jacks x evangeline #tbona spoilers #the ballad of never after #jacks prince of hearts #a curse for true love #stephanie garber #she’s so real for that tho

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marinareads25 · 6 months

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no bc the Jacks of the Hollow / Prince of Hearts effect has to be studied. Like no way I’m literally giggling, kicking my feet, BLUSHING, and drawing hearts all over my books like a fucking 12 year old??!?!!!

#acftl #evajacks #evangeline fox #jacks prince of hearts #ouabh #the ballad of the archer and the fox #ouabh 3 #a curse for true love #acftl theories #stephanie garber

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bluelynnn · 8 months

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Wait you so you tell me that jacks is literally the archer and that he calls every time Eva “little fox”. And we know that the fox was his first love so Eva reminds him of love.

it’s like all this time he was already feeling something romantic towards her.

If we forget for a second that her last name is Fox and that the story happens again.

I JUST CANT WAIT FOR THEIR HAPPY ENDING.

#tbona #acftl theories #acftl #acftl spoilers #ouabh #jacks x evangeline #jacks prince of hearts #prince of hearts #evajacks #evangeline fox #caraval #stephanie garber #the ballad of never after #a curse for true love

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