Once upon a time there was a Princess
who moved from the far away empire of Atlanta to the mountain realm of Denver.
This realm had strange things like hockey games, snow in the fall, winter, AND
spring, and lots of people who liked to hike, boat, and camp outside. The Princess
missed her family and friends back in her old Atlanta realm. She missed the
delicious food, the friendly farmer’s markets, and the mildly warm winters.
However, the princess was lonely. Any prince who came her way seemed to be
horribly broken. These princes were judgmental, uneducated, or lazy. They were
broke, cheap, or both. They were princes who’d made terrible choices for their
kingdoms, and therefore weren’t good enough to join forces with the princess.
The Princess’s colleague princess,
the Lady Denisse, from a far country where they had mountains and cities and
spoke Spanish, called Peru, advised the princess. She’d too had a long journey
to finding her prince, and it took her across the globe and back to have found
her prince Jeff many years before. She advised the princess, “Quit going out
with the dwarfs, and wait for your prince.” It was good advice that the
princess took to heart.
The Princess went home to Atlanta
in the winter season, where there was very little snow and a fresh baby niece
Princess named Stella who’d just been born. She realized how much she missed having
people to laugh with and to be herself around. You see, some princesses are
very proper and do things a certain way, but this Princess was a little different.
She carved her own path and played her own music to dance to. Apparently, the
princes in the realm of Denver were looking for the boring princesses. She was
sad as she returned to the Denver kingdom, driving a new-to-her Suzuki steed
across the nation with her dear friend, the artist Slemonade and her
long-missed sidekick, Petey Bella.
You may know this, but every
princess needs an animal sidekick (think of every princess you know!) and
several dear friends and confidantes. The princess had a dear friend, Princess
Al, who wore glass slippers and ran around castles very fast, pushing her
little prince in a stroller. Princess Al was someone who the Princess really
looked up to and she began running around the Denver realm too. Something about
running, while miles and miles apart, made the athletic princesses feel closer.
This Princess’s dear friends were all back in the Southern empire, so it was
imperative that the Princess spoke with them via phone and text and facebook
and gchat much of the time. All this communicating did keep her buried in
devices…computer, ipod, smartphone, etc., but she still went to hike in the
beautiful mountains surrounding the realm as often as she could. Her father,
the old (but not that old) king even bought her a National Park pass so that
she could go up to the Rocky Mountains whenever she wanted.
One day, the Princess met a Prince
at a comedy club in downtown Denver. They each brought their own steeds,
because he came from a neighboring territory called Westminster, but truly, he
was a gentleman from an either farther away dominion called Wisconsin. It was a
strange land where the knights and gentlepeople hunted deer and fished for fish
and had manners, but also had accents similar to those from their neighbor,
Canada. The Princess and the Prince had a delightful time that night—they had
drinks at an unsavory bar in Cap Hill, then watched the improv (what silly
jesters there are in the world), and shared fried potatoes and drinks at a
nearby tavern. Did the Princess dare wonder if this prince would be worth her
time?
The Princess and the Prince had
another encounter, a late one with magic pictures on a dark screen…a nostalgic
cinematic experience at the Esquire Theater of “The Muppets Take Manhattan.”
The Prince and the Princess shared a bottle of good Lambrusco and also shared
many hours of conversation. The princess felt safe and open, like she could
tell the prince anything. In the early hours of the next morning, the prince
left his glass on the counter and departed from her castle. It was very sweet
and pure. Maybe a week later, they enjoyed pizza at the magical Tony P’s. They
shared a kiss on a windy sidewalk…which, while innocent, left both of their
heads spinning.
Later that month, the prince
invited the Princess to a spectacle of a Rockies baseball game. The Princess
didn’t particularly care about sports, but she enjoyed a crowd and the live
action of the sport. The two walked to the downtown 16th Street Mall
area—an area people who visit Denver like to see, but the princess had not yet
been to. The two had delicious food and fancy drinks at the Rialto cafĂ©—another
Denver fixture. They again, enjoyed conversing and each other’s company and
laughing at the spectacle that a city can bring. The prince even blushed when a
knave spoke to them and told them how beautiful the princess was. The Princess’s
tummy was filling with butterflies, the more she spent time with him.
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