The story tells of a princess who is cursed by a wicked fairy to die by pricking her finger on a spindle at age 16, but a good fairy modifies the curse so that the princess will sleep for 100 years until awakened by a prince's kiss. After 100 years, the prince finds the sleeping princess and kisses her, breaking the spell, and they marry and live happily ever after. The moral of the story highlights positive values like love, kindness, and friendship contrasted with negative values like anger, envy, and malice. Love plays an important role in overcoming evil, as shown when the prince's kiss breaks the curse.

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