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It's a story about Marie, who falls in love with a soldier despite his looks from an injury that disfigured him, for which his past fiancée had rejected him.

That's the story without all of the magic. I get the feeling the author knew an actual situation like this and it inspired The Nutcracker we know now.

Except that she starts out as a child. I'm hoping that this is the origin story of the first sparks of affection, and that her fantasies of becoming his queen were eventually replaced with fantasies of becoming his wife after an appropriate number of years.

Description
It's a story about Marie, who falls in love with a soldier despite his looks from an injury that disfigured him, for which his past fiancée had rejected him.

That's the story without all of the magic. I get the feeling the author knew an actual situation like this and it inspired The Nutcracker we know now.

Except that she starts out as a child. I'm hoping that this is the origin story of the first sparks of affection, and that her fantasies of becoming his queen were eventually replaced with fantasies of becoming his wife after an appropriate number of years.