T-Rex: Snow White (née "Catherine") had been tricked by her stepmother to eat a chemically altered apple, which put her into a deep sleep from which she would not awaken for a hundred years!
Narrator: SNOW WHITE
Narrator: a peer-reviewed fairy tale
T-Rex: The only hope to wake early was a kiss from the kind of prince who could convince himself that his obsession with an unconscious stranger was true love. Since the kingdom was a democracy there were no such princes available, and the remaining monarchies were big into the idea of informed consent, which necessarily precluded kissing unconscious strangers. So Cathy stayed in her deep slumber, ageless, for a century!
Utahraptor: And did she finally wake up?
T-Rex: Eventually, yeah!
T-Rex: Cathy awoke to a world filled with other sleepers, as her suspended animation had been commercialized. Most of society, in fact, was slumbering, all hoping to skip ahead to a better tomorrow in which their problems were eliminated. They woke every 100 years for a brief check up and apple slice, then slumbered.
T-Rex: The Earth, effectively depopulated, reverted to a more natural state, but those who remained still managed to accomplish important work, and eventually most slumberers awoke - and stayed awake - to join their brethren as they explored the cosmos.
