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Alternatives to "And They Lived Happily Ever After"

Yes, we know life doesn't always have happy endings - but it took years of medication and unreturned phone calls before we finally accepted it. To help posterity avoid huge therapy bills, we encourage grandmothers, librarians and story-tellers of all sorts to use the following list of alternative endings to fairy tales.
#01
And they stayed together because of the kids.
#02
And she never learned her lesson never to eavesdrop on any of his phone conversations again.
#03
And he realized that money actually could buy happiness.
#04
And with all that alimony, she finally bought the castle she'd always dreamed of.
#05
And he never found out out the child wasn't his.
#06
And eventually, she came to terms with the fact that she was probably going to have to save herself.
#07
And they lived happily ever... until the following winter.
#08
And she never had any idea that he was actually gay.
#09
And eventually she came to terms that her stepmother wasn't evil - just demanding.
#10
And sometimes she wondered whether a kiss that reanimated her from the dead was really grounds for a lifelong romance.
#11
And the three of them lived happily ever after.