<P>This isn't your everyday Beauty and the Beast story. Our love story was tragic until it wasn't...</P><P>Once upon a time I fell in love with a beast.</P><P>I fell fast. I fell hard.</P><P>I loved him intensely and I trusted him completely - until he ripped my heart to shreds.</P><P>Love isn't a fairy tale.</P><P>It's messy.</P><P>It's dirty. It's painful and it's ugly.</P><P>Until it's not....</P>