John Muir said one lesson from the ordeal -- even with the happy ending -- is that hikers should plan first and plan for the worst.
There was a time when the half-happy ending of an Allen movie felt stirring and hard-earned, but the collective felicity that descends at the end of this project is more of a flimsy dream.
"Girls were not encouraged to participate in sport because there were all these different type of myths: you're not going to be fertile, you're not going to get married one day, you're not going to have the so-called happy ending that would make any mother proud, " Shapinga says.
Its central relationship, between an upper-middle-class man and his working-class lover, has been described as sentimental, its happy ending dismissed as wish-fulfilment.
And Hollywood is the fabled fairytale factory - perhaps this is one story with a happy ending.
That's why the happy ending for CBS ' (nyse: CBS - news - people ) freshman drama Jericho, which was gifted with a second season after the network had announced its cancellation, came as such a surprise to the cast and crew alike.
"It was a long match and I'm extremely happy to win, " Federer said after ending Ferrer's 11-match unbeaten run.
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Her story has a happy ending as her parents made it out and settled in Stoke-on-Trent, where they acted as surrogate parents for many Czech children.
If the status quo is maintained, by 2011 around 15% of the EU's wine output--currently around 180 million hectoliters (4.8 billion gallons) a year--will be destined for distilleries, perhaps ending up in very happy Volvos, Fiats and Peugeots.
But he envisions the impossible--even if it all sounds a little bit too much like a happy Hollywood ending.
But you can be sure Brown nor anyone else at the club are skipping the pages, anticipating a happy ending, for they know full well the final chapter will be the most difficult to write - if that's not stretching the fairytale allusion too far!
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