Alternatives to “And They Lived Happily Ever After”

Alternatives to "And They Lived Happily Ever After"

Yes, we know life doesn't always have happy endings – but it took years of
medication and unreturned phone calls before we finally accepted it. To help
posterity avoid huge therapy bills, we encourage grandmothers, librarians
and story-tellers of all sorts to use the following list of alternative
endings to fairy tales.
#01
And they stayed together because of the kids.
#02
And she never learned her lesson never to eavesdrop on any of his phone
conversations again.
#03
And he realized that money actually could buy happiness.
#04
And with all that alimony, she finally bought the castle she'd always
dreamed of.
#05
And he never found out out the child wasn't his.
#06
And eventually, she came to terms with the fact that she was probably going
to have to save herself.
#07
And they lived happily ever… until the following winter.
#08
And she never had any idea that he was actually gay.
#09
And eventually she came to terms that her stepmother wasn't evil – just
demanding.
#10
And sometimes she wondered whether a kiss that reanimated her from the dead
was really grounds for a lifelong romance.
#11
And the three of them lived happily ever after.