She was like a princess in a fairy tale.

她像童话故事里的一位公主。

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What should feel like a twist feels largely the same as any other rescue-the-princess-tale.

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She feels like a fickle princess in a fairy tale, trying out all the options this door, that bed and detecting flaws in each.

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Her ballet is based on George MacDonald's beautifully told 1872 tale about Irene, a steadfast princess who encounters the ghost of her loving great-great-grandmother (also named Irene) and, accompanied by her rustic friend Curdie, gets entangled with a population of fearsome goblins.

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