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Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. A short

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Speaker 1: Thank you. This story is another fairy tale, the tale

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Speaker 1: of Rapunzel, a tale of parents who want a child

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Speaker 1: more than anything. The girl was born and taken away

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Speaker 1: by an enchantress and locked up in a tower. Once

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Speaker 1: she turned twelve. The enchantress would come and visit her

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Speaker 1: every day, and only be able to get into the

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Speaker 1: tower by using Rapunzel's long hair. Rapunzel, there were once

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Speaker 1: a man and a woman who had long in vain

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Speaker 1: wished for a child. At length, the woman hoped that

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Speaker 1: her wish was about to come true. These people had

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Speaker 1: a little window at the back of their house from

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Speaker 1: which a splendid garden could be seen, which was full

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Speaker 1: of the most beauty, beautiful flowers and herbs. It was, however,

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Speaker 1: surrounded by a high wall and no one dared to

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Speaker 1: go into it, because it belonged to an enchantress who

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Speaker 1: had great power and was dreaded by all the world.

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Speaker 1: One day, the woman was standing by this window and

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Speaker 1: looking down into the garden when she saw a bed

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Speaker 1: which was planted with the most beautiful rampion, and it

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Speaker 1: looked so fresh and green that she longed for it.

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Speaker 1: She quite pined away and began to look pale and miserable.

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Speaker 1: Then her husband was alarmed and asked, what's wrong, dear wife. Ugh,

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Speaker 1: she replied, If I can't eat some of the rampion

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Speaker 1: which is in the garden behind our house, I shall

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Speaker 1: never eat anything again. The man who loved her thought,

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Speaker 1: sooner than let your wife fade away, bring her some

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Speaker 1: of the rampion yourself. Let it cost what it will.

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Speaker 1: At twilight, he clambered down over the wall into the

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Speaker 1: garden of the enchantress, quickly clutched a handful of rampion,

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Speaker 1: and took it to his wife. She at once made

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Speaker 1: herself a salad of it, and ate it greedily. It

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Speaker 1: tasted so good to her, so very good, that the

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Speaker 1: next day she longed for it three times as much

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Speaker 1: as before. If he was to have any rest her

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Speaker 1: husband must once more descend into the garden in the

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Speaker 1: gloom of evening. Therefore he let himself down again. But

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Speaker 1: when he had clambered down the wall, he was terribly afraid,

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Speaker 1: for he saw the Enchantress standing before him. How can

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Speaker 1: you dare, she said, with an angry look, descend into

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Speaker 1: shall suffer for it. Ah, he answered, let mercy take

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Speaker 1: the place of justice. I only made up my mind

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Speaker 1: to do it out of necessity. My wife saw your

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Speaker 1: rampion from the window and felt such a longing for

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Speaker 1: it that she would have faded away if she had

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Speaker 1: not got some to eat. Then the Enchantress allowed her

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Speaker 1: anger to be softened and said to him, if the

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Speaker 1: case be as you say, I will allow you to

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Speaker 1: take away with you as much rampiant as you will.

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Speaker 1: Only I make one condition. You must give me the

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Speaker 1: child which your wife will bring into the world. It

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Speaker 1: shall be well treated, and I will care for it

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Speaker 1: like a mother. The man, in his fear, consented to everything,

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Speaker 1: and when the woman was brought to bed and ready

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Speaker 1: to have her child, the enchantress appeared at once gave

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Speaker 1: the child the name of Rapunzel and took it away

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Speaker 1: with her. Rapunzel grew into the most beautiful child under

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Speaker 1: the sun. When she was twelve years old, the enchantress

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Speaker 1: shut her up into a tower which lay in a

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Speaker 1: let down your hair to me. Rapunzel had magnificent long hair,

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Speaker 1: fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice

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Speaker 1: of the enchantress, she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them

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Speaker 1: then the hair fell twenty stories down, and the enchantress

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Speaker 1: climbed up by it. After a year or two, it

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Speaker 1: came to pass that the king's son rode through the

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Speaker 1: forest and passed by the tower. Then he heard a

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Speaker 1: song which was so charming that he stood still and listened.

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Speaker 1: This was Rapunzel, who, in her solitude, passed her time

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Speaker 1: and letting her sweet voice resound. The king's son wanted

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Speaker 1: he heard how she cried, Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your

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Speaker 1: hair to me. Then Rapunzel let down the braids of

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Speaker 1: her hair, and the enchantress climbed up to her. If

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Speaker 1: that is the latter by which one mounts, I too

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Speaker 1: will try my fortune, he said. And the next day,

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Speaker 1: when it began to grow dark, he went to the

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Speaker 1: tower and cried, Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair to me.

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Speaker 1: Immediately the hair fell down, and the king's son climbed up.

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Speaker 1: At first, Rapunzel was terribly frightened when a man such

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Speaker 1: But the king's son began to talk to her quite

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Speaker 1: been so stirred that it had let him have no rest,

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Speaker 1: and he had been forced to see her. Then Rapunzel

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Speaker 1: lost her fear, and after some time when he asked

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Speaker 1: her if she would take him for her husband, and

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Speaker 1: she saw that he was young and handsome. She thought

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Speaker 1: and so she said yes and laid her hand in his.

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Speaker 1: She said, I will willingly go away with you, but

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Speaker 1: I do not know how to get down. Bring with

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Speaker 1: you a skein of silk every time that you come,

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Speaker 1: and I will weave a ladder with it, And when

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Speaker 1: that is ready, I will descend, and you will take

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Speaker 1: me with you on your horse. They agreed that until

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Speaker 1: that time he should come and visit every evening, for

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Speaker 1: the old woman came by day. The enchantress remarked nothing

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Speaker 1: of this until once Rapunzel said to her, tell me,

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Speaker 1: Dame Gothel, how it happens that you are so much

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Speaker 1: heavier for me to draw up than the young king's son.

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Speaker 1: It takes me no time at all to pull him up. Ah,

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Speaker 1: you wicked child, cried the enchantress. What do I hear

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Speaker 1: you say? I thought I had separated you from all

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Speaker 1: the world, and yet you have deceived me. In her anger,

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Speaker 1: she clutched Rapunzel's beautiful tresses, wrapped them twice round. Her

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Speaker 1: and snip snap. They were cut off, and the lovely

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Speaker 1: braids lay on the ground. And as she was so cruel,

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Speaker 1: she took poor Rapunzel into the desert, where she had

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Speaker 1: to live in great grief and misery. On the same

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Speaker 1: day that she cast out Rapunzel, however, the enchantress fastened

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Speaker 1: the braids of hair which she had cut off, to

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Speaker 1: came and cried, Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair to me,

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Speaker 1: but instead of finding his dearest Rapunzel, he found the enchantress,

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Speaker 1: who gazed at him with wicked and dangerous looks Ah,

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Speaker 1: she cried mockingly. You would fetch your dearest, but the

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Speaker 1: cat has got it and will scratch at you. Rapunzel

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Speaker 1: is lost to you. You will never see her again.

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Speaker 1: The king's son was beside himself with pain, and in

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Speaker 1: his sadness and need to get away, he leapt down

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Speaker 1: from the tower. He escaped the enchantress, but the thorns

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Speaker 1: into which he fell had scratched his eyes. He then

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Speaker 1: and berries, and did nothing but saw and weep over

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Speaker 1: the loss of his dearest Rapunzel. Thus he roamed about

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Speaker 1: in misery for some years, and at length came to

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Speaker 1: the desert where Rapunzel, with the twins she had had,

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Speaker 1: a boy and a girl, lived in sorrow and unhappiness.

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Speaker 1: He heard a voice, and it seemed so familiar to

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Speaker 1: him that he went towards it. And when he approached,

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Speaker 1: Rapunzel knew him, and fell on his neck and wept.

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Speaker 1: Two of her tears wetted his eyes, and they grew

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Speaker 1: clear again, and he could see with them as before.

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Speaker 1: He led her to his kingdom, where they were joyfully received,

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Speaker 1: and they lived for a long time afterwards, happy and content.

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Speaker 1: Good Night, Leap Tight