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[paints_lanterns]

[When the video clicks on, it shows Rapunzel's back as she moves away from the phone to plop down in a chair by the window. Her hair is everywhere, in piles or stretched over bits of furniture, and after she sits down she begins brushing it as she smiles at the camera. Pascal is asleep on her shoulder.]

Hi! I just wanted to let everybody I was

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[paints_lanterns]

Someone said there is a store right near the MAC? I was just going to go there. Unless there are other places?

I'm...new at buying things.

[paints_lanterns]

...No.

Mother...wanted to protect me from the world.

[paints_lanterns]

What? No! My world is beautiful! Well, what I've seen of it...and read about. Nothing like any of that!

[paints_lanterns]

Mother was not weird. She just cared about me. And she didn't want people to take advantage of my...of me. So, she kept me safe.

I can make paint, cook most things, sew, play guitar...I had a lot of hobbies.

[paints_lanterns]

Yes. I've...never cut my hair. But I learned how to braid it recently, so I can keep it off the street.

[She wrinkles her nose.]

I would not end up with rats in my hair either way!