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// Epilogue : A Shy Solution 
// Story: The Mane Makes The Pony 
// by MerlosTheMad 
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Fluttershy leaned back in the barber's chair, a stern look painted across her yellow coated features. What she was about to do was for a dear friend.

"Are you... absolutely sure this is what you want, Ms. Fluttershy?" Aloe nervously poked her front hooves against one another, eying the scissors that were poised to cut the long, luscious pink mane laying before them. She gave Hans a quick glance, and could also see the overwhelming sadness the hulking minotaur was bearing over what he had been ordered to do.

Fluttershy looked over at the spa-pony, and nodded determinedly. "Oh, yes, Aloe, I'm very sure. Pinkie Pie is one of my absolute best friends in the whole world, and she's feeling very out of her element right now. I want to do everything I can to make her feel not so alone." She turned and gave the new hair stylist a pleading look. "Please, go ahead and do it, Mr. Hans."

Hans gave Aloe one last, doubtful glance, then, once Aloe nodded to him, he sucked in a breath. Slowly, he slid the long scissors he held over Fluttershy's mane and...