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Demovictory9

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Thu Jun 27, 2019, 10:16 PM Jun 2019

Mom paid $200 for her daughters to ride unicorns, disappointed

A British mom who paid $200 so her daughters could ride unicorns was disappointed when the excited trio showed up to find an empty field where they were expecting a world of wonder.

"My girls were naturally distraught their dream experience had been shattered and we’d driven for an hour-and-three-quarters for nothing,” Kate Howell told the Kent Messenger.

The event, organized by Unicorn Dream, was to have taken place in Reading, England, on June 2. According to Kent Online, its organizer Darren Rocket said customers received an email two weeks in advance saying the festivities had been cancelled, which was followed by a phone call on June 1. Rocket also said Howell was nevertheless instantly refunded for the event and compensated with complimentary VIP tickets to a different function.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ny-mom-unicorn-kids-sad-disappointed-20190628-ssekhy3rrzbcjple4mz2gdxqpu-story.html

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Mom paid $200 for her daughters to ride unicorns, disappointed (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jun 2019 OP
A unicorn with two horns? Totally Tunsie Jun 2019 #1
Wrong! It's just an extra horny unicorn! ProudLib72 Jun 2019 #2
Irony there - Theresa May also had a Unicorn Dream or two in her Brexit deal.... KY_EnviroGuy Jun 2019 #3

Totally Tunsie

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1. A unicorn with two horns?
Thu Jun 27, 2019, 11:19 PM
Jun 2019
Speaking of “one-horned,” that’s what unicorn literally means. Borrowed into English by the early 1200s from French, unicorn comes from the Latin unicornis, “having one horn.” This root joins uni-, meaning “one,” and cornu, “horn.”


https://www.dictionary.com/e/unicorn-word-trends/

Their horse transformation needs a little work.
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