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Beauty and the Beast
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Beauty and the Beast
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“The Beauty and the Beast” is a heartfelt story about the birth of love and the capability of love to transform the way you look at people you love. The moral of this fairytale is that person’s beauty comes from a heart in love and when the beauty realizes the inner beauty of the beast and the feelings it has the outer appearance means nothing to her anymore.
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