"Briar Rose" is the classic fairytale of Sleeping Beauty come to life. And what a life it is taken from her family, hidden way from her destine. Only for fate to come and intervene. The story tells of fairies and prophecies. The author Anne Sexton, speaks of an insomniac laying awake at night in "Briar Rose"
             suddenly two years sucking her thumb,
             She swimming further and further back,
             struggling into her mother's pocketbook.
             I have a kiss for the back of your neck.
             A penny for your thoughts, Princess.
             and because he had only twelve gold plates
             her fingers as long and thin as straws,
             on a spinning wheel in her fifteenth year
             The king ordered every spinning wheel
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