it's my birthday, mum. and since you loved telling me bedtime stories that taught me lessons when you were alive, i decided that i should tell you one as well.

long ago, there lived a prince
that had been turned
into a frog because of an evil
witch's spell

he spent most of
his early years trying
to turn himself
back his human form

and then on his seventeenth
birthday, the witch visited
him and told him
that there was a way to
turn himself back human

he had to sacrifice the heart
of the most beautiful
young lad in the village
to the witch in order
to make himself whole again

because without that, he
would always have
something missing

he wouldn't be himself again
without it

and mother, i was getting closer and closer to being whole again.

i'd finally found the young lad's heart.

and now that i buried it next to you, i was closer to being myself again.

i had a feeling you'd really like hyunjin's teeth.

- lee minho, 17