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Once upon a time there was a girl Lets call her Rapunzel A modern-day version Abandoned Alone Waiting for her hair to grow and dreaming of a way to escape from her tower She was trapped you see Not in the conventional fairy-tale waythis was the dreaded after-school Homework Club A desolate place where no gum could be chewed and where Rapunzel sat day after day cursing the evil spell that had been cast over her father The doctors called it something else but a true heroine can smell an evil spell a mile away So when a mysterious letter addressed to PO Box falls into her hands she knows shes found the pea under her mattress But since when is finding happily ever after as simple as Just Writing Back Winner of the Ursula Nordstrom Fiction Contest Sara Lewis Holmess enchanting debut novel is a breath of fresh air Told through letters with a liberal sprinkling of fairy dust Rapunzels quest for a happy ending gives every reader something to believe in.