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// Prelude 
// Story: Sincerely, Your Former Roommate 
// by Fiddlebottoms 
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Deep in the Everfree, there stands the ruins of a palace. It was in this building that the Elements of Harmony were once rumored to have been hidden, and it is here that they were used to cleanse the world of Nightmare Moon.

However, if you take a left turn on the way to the throne room, and follow a passageway down to the living quarters, you will find an ancient kitchen. Within this kitchen, sits a fridge, older than any written history. The contents of this fridge are two bowls, and one-eighth of a milk carton. The rest of the milk carton, as well as its contents and the salads that once rested in those bowls, have been devoured by a species of mold which is well on its way to gaining sentience.

Sometimes, when the wind and chance swinging of doors line up just right, a draft will enter this kitchen and stir several brightly colored pieces of paper that hang among the heart-shaped magnets. These papers tell a story so old that only a handful remember …