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This is called "Family Romance."

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And as many of
you probably know,

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that's a term used
in psychoanalysis

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for the kind of
fantasy that children

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have about their
real parents who

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may have been Kings
and Queens or whatever,

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but who are not
these two people whom

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they're stuck with in reality.

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"We lost our mother, and our
father was the King, always

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absent at the wars.

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We had to make it
together or not at all.

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In the Black Forest--

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cutting paths, stumbling on
the witch's house, long empty.

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Gathering wood and mushrooms,
gathering everything

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we needed in a
wordless collusion.

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Sometimes we pretended the
witch had been our mother

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and would come back.

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We loved each other
with a passion

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understood like the
great roots of the wood.

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In another country we might
have fought each other

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and died of fraternal
wounds, conspiring,

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each alone, for the father's
blessing, the birthright,

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the mother.

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Since we had no father to
bless us, we were free,

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and our birthright
was each other.

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Our life was harsh and simple.

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We slept deeply.

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And we thought our mother
came and watched us sleeping."

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