You
 want
 to
know why  I put it in the apple?
The poison, right. Why not. One place is as good
as another. I had to disguise it. Why not a dress? Acid
would have made her shrivel up and die and that's been done.
Yes, apple has been done before too. The mirror suggested it.
He said who'd suspect a nice red apple and better yet, who would
question a poor old woman trying to sell the apple. I also just happened
to have apples on hand. I wouldn't have put it in a kiwi or a cumquat.
Those peasant girls don't know much about transnational delicacies.
No, this isn't about knowledge disguised as fruit. I dressed as a hag,
not a temptation, though I did get her, at least temporarily, out of my
kingdom, garden, or whatever you'd like to call it. But the point
was to get the prince for myself. I was the fairest of all them all.
This has nothing to do with Eve's apple. Wait, Eve had an apple?
I thought it was always Adam's apple. The one he's
been choking on  after all these years.

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