<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Life, the Obstacle Course]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[taurusingemini]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://lifetheobstaclecourse.wordpress.com/author/taurusingemini/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Inside This Castle of Your Nightmares&#8230;]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;">I was, a child, who’d found my way, to a castle, and, I’d, wandered in…</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">What I didn’t know was, that this, was, NO ordinary, <em>Cinderella’s Castle, </em>with the assortments of wonderful things, oh no, instead, it was, a castle, of your nightmares!</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Inside this castle of your nightmares, I’d, struggled hard, to break free, from this gilded cage that that old WITCH had kept <em>Hansel &amp; Gretel </em>in. Inside this castle of your nightmares, I couldn’t dream, just like how <em>Captain Hook </em>was chased down by that time-consuming <em>Crocodile</em>, was, deprive of time.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">not my photograph&#8230;<img src="https://i0.wp.com/washingtonpark.org/files/2012/06/DSC_0665-R.jpg" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Inside this castle of your nightmares, I was, raised, by this, deafening silence, but I still, worked hard, just like <em>Thumbelina </em>had, and I’d, finally, found my way out, just as <em>Thumbelina </em>gained her newfound sense of purpose, becoming a sitter for <em>Mr. Toad’s tadpoles</em> while he worked away, to catch the flies………</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Inside this castle of your nightmares I now inherited, well, I’m going a brand new direction, I’m remodeling this darken place, to make it, more alive, filling it up, with joys, and everything that a child needs to thrive, and now, your castle filled up with your former nightmares is no more, and in its place, stood, MY brand new castle of hopes AND dreams!!!</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">here comes, the too young, and the too naive!!!</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img src="https://i0.wp.com/ipadkids.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/hansel-and-gretel-2.jpg" />not my picture still&#8230;</p>
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