The Story Of The Princess Bride

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" high adventure and true love are two of the best things you could ever hope to find in a story" states Goldman, Author of the Princess Bride. The movie Adaption perferfectly brings to life the ever enduring love bewteen the Wesley and Buttercup. Nothing life could thorw at them couls shake their bond. Truly in this film, Love conquers all.
Wesley began as Buttercups farmboy, Catering to her every whim, although as time passed she began to notice" every time he said as you wish what he was instead saying was I love you." when tragedy struck and Wesley was presumably killed by the dread pirate Roberts she vowed to never love another. Five years passed and she found herself engaged to man she could never love, Prince humperdink. One an average,

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