Open Your Mind on ABC’s Once Upon a Time

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In this magical clip from ABC’s Once Upon a Time, we’re reminded that every story begins somewhere—often where we least expect it. Open your mind, and you might just find a fairytale waiting to unfold.

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00:00Now make a hat and get it to work.

00:02I don't...

00:02You have magic. You can do it.

00:11The hats.

00:13The tea.

00:16Your psychotic behavior.

00:18You think you're the Mad Hatter.

00:20My name's Jefferson.

00:22Okay.

00:24You've clearly glommed onto my kid Henry's thing.

00:28They're just stories.

00:30The Mad Hatter is in Alice in Wonderland.

00:32A book. A book I actually read.

00:34Stories.

00:36Stories.

00:38What's a story?

00:41When you were in high school, did you learn about the Civil War?

00:44Yeah, of course.

00:45How? Did you read about it perchance in a book?

00:47How is that any less real than any other book?

00:49History books are based on history.

00:51And story books are based on what?

00:54Imagination.

00:55Where does that come from?

00:57It has to come from somewhere.

01:00You know what the issue is with this world?

01:03Everyone wants some magical solution for their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.

01:08Now get it to work.

01:09Here's the thing, Jefferson.

01:13This is it.

01:15This is the real world.

01:16A real world.

01:20How arrogant are you to think yours is the only one?

01:22There are infinite more.

01:23You have to open your mind.

01:25They touch one another.

01:27Pressing up in a long line of lands.

01:29Each just as real as the last.

01:30All have their own rules.

01:32Some have magic.

01:32Some don't.

01:33And some need magic.

01:36And some need magic.

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