16 years later…
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7. 16 years later…
We skip forward 16 years to Aurora’s 16th birthday and there’s a party underway. Things are briefly interrupted with the discovery that some of the ladies are knitting – all needles are banned in the kingdom because of Aurora’s curse. Pictured: The Bolshoi Ballet. Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images