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Cinderella.
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Names have power, like magic spells.
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And of a sudden, it seemed to her
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that her stepmother and stepsisters
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had indeed transformed her
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into merely a creature of ash and toil.
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Run!
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Quickly, my friend, or they'll catch you!
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Go!
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Whoa! Easy!
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Perhaps it was just as well that Ella's stepsisters were cruel.
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For had she not run to the forest,