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When you're about to marry the love of your life, not many things could stop you. However, finding out that your future hubby is keeping his crazy wife locked up in the attic is probably one of them.

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Thank you We sneak Jane eyre all our shmoop my

00:08

story's a common tale really Girl needs a boy boy

00:12

falls for girl girl finds out boy has a violently

00:15

insane wife locked in his attic but there's a twist

00:19

This girl is a governess I wasn't born a governess

00:24

I used to have a nice home with my uncle

00:26

until he died and left me alone My horrible aunt

00:29

monstrous cousins Cinderella thinks she had a bad at least

00:35

she wasn't sent to a boarding school that made that

00:38

hotel in the shining look like a b and b

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I did make a friend named helen which was cool

00:44

until she died and i woke up next to her

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cold dead body What didn't kill me made me stronger

00:50

though and i got my teaching creds and got out

00:53

of town way out of town I found a job

00:57

as a live in teacher to a moppet named adele

01:00

just super cute But her guardian Mr rochester was a

01:04

bit of a jerk It kind of started to grow

01:07

on me though In an emotionally unavailable mr dassey kind

01:09

of way I even helped when someone tried to flambe

01:13

a mr rochester in his bed and molded houses In

01:17

hindsight i probably should have paid more attention to all

01:19

of these attempted homicides Definite red flags I was not

01:25

happy when raj jesse's girlfriend blanche showed up She was

01:28

all wrong for him Tall perfect musically talented I hated

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their guts Luckily rochester knew she was a gold digger

01:37

and decided to marry Wait for it Me The engagement

01:41

was all a blur except for a few ominous warnings

01:44

here There Like that time i woke up to find

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a hideous woman in my room trying on my veil

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Well that first i thought it was just mr rochester

01:52

expressing his latent cross justin tendencies But then i figured

01:55

it must be a dream A dream that ripped my

01:58

veil in half and the lion knows has behind I

02:02

should have known the drama wouldn't stop there I was

02:05

literally at the altar when this guy piped up that

02:08

rochester has a bonkers first wife They built a squirrel

02:11

away in his attic You'd think someone would have mentioned

02:14

her earlier Like maybe before the day of my wedding

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I wasn't the polygamist type so i had to get

02:20

away It turns out the world isn't a friendly place

02:23

The penniless governesses Fortunately i was discovered by distant relatives

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I crashed with them until my rich uncle died leaving

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me a boatload of cash Things were great until my

02:34

cousin sinjin declared that he was madly in like with

02:37

me and wanted to sweep me away on a just

02:38

friends honeymoon slash missionary crusade Tempting as it wass to

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marry a guy who found mia's attractive this cottage cheese

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but a girl's gotta have some romance in her life

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Rochester i couldn't help it I still love the big

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lug The floppy hair that elegant knows the condescending sneer

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I guess i could get used to sharing him with

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a head case When i got back phone bill was

03:02

in need of some serious renovation Rochester was blind and

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missing a hand Naturally i suspected a cool lightsaber battle

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but apparently both burned down the house chief never saw

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that one coming Rogers to almost bucket trying to save

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her He looks so broken and sad But most important

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of all he was single again Well i married him

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and we're living happily in our new home this time 00:03:29.614 --> [endTime] No attics Yeah

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