Once upon a time, there was a girl locked up in a tower, with long golden hair.  Quite often, a prince approached her tower and tried to climb her hair, but every time the same thing happened.

The girl sighed, bored and lonely.  She heard a voice from down below and, when she glanced down, she saw yet another prince waiting for her to lower her hair.  She collected her hair in her arms and threw them down, all the way to the prince below.  He took hold and started to climb.  Since he was so heavy, the girl's hair was being tugged out of her head and she clenched her jaw, determined to withstand the pain.  When the prince was a third of the way up, her eyes were watering, but she was still holding on.  When the prince was two thirds up, tears were streaming from her eyes and she went to the window and, through blurry eyes, shook her hair, causing the prince to fall back down.  

She sat down on her bed and new tears sprung from her eyes, not from pain, but from sadness that was caused by the notion that she would never be free.  She looked at her mirror and finally came up with an idea.  She stood up and ran to her desk, grabbing a pair of scissors.  She used them to cut her bedding into thin strips and she tied them together, making a ladder as tall as her tower.  She then cut her hair and used the ladder to climb out of her tower.  She lived a lovely life, without princes holding her back, and free to do whatever she wanted!