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// Lessons That Were Learned 
// Story: How Princess Celestia and Ronald Reagan Rewrote History 
// by RarestRarity1779 
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	"Ronnie," Reagan heard a soft voice call, "Ronnie," he heard once more and eventually opened his eyes to see his wife over him.  He quickly sat up in the bed and turned the lamp at his bedside on.  He glanced out of the window to see the ligths of Washington D.C. twinkling all around the White House.  "You were thrashing again," Nancy Reagan said as she sat down on the edge of the bed and handed him a sleep aid and a glass of water.  "What was it this time?" she asked out of curiosity.

He took the pill and drained the glass of water.  "Another one of those... those flying unicorn ones.  You know, the ones where she can talk?"  He propped himself up against the headboard and summarized one in a line of similar dreams.

Nancy turned the light out and kissed him on the head as she laid down beside him and crawled under the covers.  "Maybe your dream are trying to tell you something," she so wisely suggested and then turned over.  

Reagan was left sitting up in the bed.  He snorted under his breath.  It sound preposterous at first, but maybe his wife was right.  Maybe, just maybe it wouldn't hurt if he made a few changes to the Executive Policy.  He slunk back down into the bed and under the sheets, but he remained wide awake as she flipped onto his side and stared over at the wall.

"Of all things," he thought silently to himself, "why did it have to be a horse?  Oh, God, I'm getting old."  He ran his hand down his face and sighed.  Though the mere thought of it sounded crazy, he was going to follow through with his previous plan and make a few changes.  Perhaps this mental incarnation of something truly was trying to tell him something and teach him a lesson?  

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Surely enough, months later Reagan implemented new policies for the Soviet-U.S.A summit and the cold war froze.  It ended.  As the mare in his dreams had told him, both sides would have to work towards peace at the same time.  Though reluctant at first, both nations eventually coarsed each other into a period of negotiations which ultimately led to peace.

Of course, as we speak the Soviet Union continues to exist today and is more prosperous than ever, and it's message of being "United forever in friendship and labor" has spread out across the world to create socities with free education, housing, and the basic necessities of life all without any interference, encouragement in fact, from the United States.  And though Ronald Reagan is not viewed as the mighty president with a rock solid attitude and plan for American success in the cold war like he could have been, many great things resulted from the "Early Ending".  The United States has virtually no national debt and quickly averted its many debts to China and the rest of the world as a result of the new "Reaganomics" set in place and then changed after his series of dreams (all of which stopped once he made his changes).  Gas prices are at an all time low at $1.45 a gallon and inflation is only a term seen in economic study books.  Most nations of the world, aside from North Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan have disarmed their nuclear warheads, though the remaining three linger on the verge of economic collapse and are slowly being talked and bribed into disarming as well.  It is estimated that no nation will possess atomic bombs by the year 2017.  But then again, you all know that.  Reagan often told of his strange dreams, but most only laughed.  After all, who could ever believe that a simple dream, a dream so far-fetched and fictitious in nature could change the fate of an entire nation, no, an entire world?

It all goes to show that when lessons are learned, anything is possible.