Once upon a time there were a little girl called Alice. She was very clever and beautiful. But she had an evil stepmother that hated Alice because of her beauty. And in one dark night stepmother went to very wicked magicman and so he made a poison for Alice. At the breakfast stepmother poisoned the food of Alice and after one day Alice become an ugly frog. But magicman was not so wicked as everybody was thinking he loved jokes. He made poison that made Alice become a frog only for 2 days. And so after two days Alice become a human again and she was mor beautiful than ever.
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