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// Cherry Juliet 
// Story: Dear Princess Cadence 
// by Featherpen Lullaby 
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	Dear Princess Cadence, I have no idea what to do, please help me.
I’ve been a bit lonely recently but none of the stallions where I live are right, it’s a very small town you see. Now if it were just that then I’m sure I could just go speed dating or hire a matchmaker but it’s not. The problem is I have found him, the perfect stallion that is, but we can’t be together.
I saw him at a rodeo Appleloosa while I was looking for new worker for the farm and it was love at first sight, I swear I heard the violins playing. I talked to him after the rodeo on the pretense of thinking of hiring him, well it wasn’t really a pretense, he’s a fine strong pony and a great addition to the farm. He’s a really nice guy, polite as anything and such a gentlecolt; I simply adore stallions who let a lady go first, hold doors and pull out your chair for you, and he said the sweetest things.
Oh dear, I was rambling wasn’t I; I suppose one does that when one is in love. The problem is our families, were both fruit farmers and fruit farmers are very traditional in our ways, never harvest before sunrise, little things like that. The thing we’re strictest about is marriage; you should never marry a fruit farmer who farms a different type than you. It’s silly really but we stick close to these things, I’m sure you’ve guessed the problem by now, he farms apples and I farm cherries.
Now, if it was say a grape farmer then it would be frowned upon but allowed but the Apple family and the Cherry family are old rivals. I worked with his cousin not to long ago and that ended rather badly so I’m hesitant to try and break tradition again in case of another disaster. 
Hopefully yours – Cherry Juliet


Dear Cherry Juliet, I love your pseudonym, I simply adore Shakespony!
Don’t let an old musty tradition hold you back from love, you go out and you get your stallion! Rivalries all end, maybe it’s time for this one be put down and an age of peace between the families replace it, think of the delightful collaborations you could create. Some rules are made broken, particularly concerning love, there should be no limits put on something so profound and powerful.
I suggest you find him and get to know him better, become friends before anything else. If he knows and likes you already then moving up to romance will be easier, if he’s already complimented you as you implied then you’re off to a good start. 
He may not be so open to change and should that be the case then don’t give up hope, show him how it could benefit him and his family and if that doesn’t work, pull out the charm, stallions tend to be a great deal more open to suggestions when you being charming and showing off your looks.
Best of Luck, Princess Cadence.