Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, there lived a young girl whose hair was made of gold. When the people in the village saw her, they said “Oh, how beautiful she is”, and they showed her a beautiful house…on the planet Mars. They said “Come and live here forever”, and the young girl said “Oh, Mars is a planet where life’s different…safe, clean and pretty. But…how do you get there? Where you find a taxi? Which bus do you take? Right? And how do you know you’re there when you’re there?”....

But the people in the village were very poor. Every night they crept into the house where the girl slept, and they cut off a piece of her golden hair and they sold it for money. “She’ll never even notice” they said, and soon all the gold was gone from her head. The people said “Oh, she’s not beautiful at all”, and they took her from the beautiful house and they drove her into the street. She went away and she never came back. Soon, the people became hungry again and they went back into the beautiful house looking for gold, but there was no one there.

-Gia Carangi (1960-1986)