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    What happens if Belle doesn't return to the Dark Castle after freeing Philip from the curse of the Yaoguai? The answer to that question throws Storybrooke's town whore Lacey French into an unlikely friendship with local landlord Mr. Gold, but can their relationship survive the machinations of the mayor, the disapproval of her live-in ex-boyfriend/roommate, and the arrival of a mysterious stranger named Emma Swan? And what becomes of Belle and Rumpelstiltskin when it's not death and captivity that separates them, but true love?

    Or, Belle goes left instead of right and nothing is the same.

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