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What does the faery handbag symbolize in the story?

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The greatest part of the faery handbag is that there's a wrong way to open it — meaning a dangerous way, a way that can eat you alive. And it's that third compartment or “way of opening up” that separates the magical realism of childhood stories from the magical realism of stories for adults
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