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ORIGINS: Long before Disney and glitter, our hero phrase emerges from medieval manuscripts and mythic tradition. In 14th‐century Italy, Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron first hints at it – a 1702 English translation even concludes a story with the couple “lived very lovingly, and happily, ever after” . (Remarkably, “ever after” originally meant the afterlife – a kind of eternal bliss beyond this world .) It wasn’t until later that the triumphant “happily ever after” became the standard ending. Early fairy‐tale collectors actually wrote endings like “happily until their deaths” , but by the 1800s the modern line had firmly taken hold. Thus the seed was planted: every fairy tale from then on would strive to end on that high, final note of bliss.
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