One Lifetime Only
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COME ONE! COME ALL!
For one night only!
Follow the journey of two children as they live their lives in the never ending circus, where everything isn't always fun and games. They learn the hard way that life isn't fair and, no matter what, you do what the ring leader tells you. No one must know what goes on behind the curtain and on the train. They live a lie behind the face paint and costumes but the show must go on. Leave your real life behind and join the magic as it twists your soul. So enter if you dare, to see your fortune, dance with death, tame the wild beasts, see the living freaks, to be dazzled and amazed.
Welcome to the show! For one lifetime only.
******This story is a mash up of Moulin Rouge, Water for Elephants, and Flowers in the Attack.******
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