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Cinderella

This fact seemed pretty damn self-evident from just about birth on. I seemed to inconvenience my family, especially my mother. So with my multitudes of half-sisters that refused to see me as anything more than just that, half, my mother, who was exhausted and inconvenienced at the sight of me, my will and my troubled path, I was a real life Cinderella, From The Start. Since I was just there, my mother figured she might as well use me, to do her bidding. I wouldn't be home for weeks and would arrive to an empty, messy house and a two-page list of things to do. Sound familiar? Just like a fairytale, huh? So I ask, where's my fairy godmother, and my glass slipper along with the Prince Charming, to make sure it fits? And my mouse helpers, to make cakes and dresses with me? Well I might not have a fairy godmother or a glass slipper, and I'm still missing the damn mice, but I just might have found, My Prince...

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Date: 1/2/2018 9:15:00 AM
Awe, very sad.. but I’m glad this Cinderella found her Prince!
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Lukas Andrew
Date: 1/2/2018 3:58:00 PM
Thankyou anna! Blessings of kind people like you made it happen certainly. :)

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