“I heard you today. That was a scary story. There’s no reason George needs to know about a young boy losing his mother or going to a dreadful boarding school. That is just awful, and I want George to be happy, to hear good stories.” “But it is a good story, because that same boy grows up to be the man who wrote The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It’s a good story I am telling George because Jack was brave, and he became the man who . . .” I don’t know how to articulate what I mean so I sit quietly for a minute. We both do. “Mum, all fairy tales have a bad part. They all have a scary part.
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