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Hi, this is Lisa DeSimone. I'll be reading Cinderella.

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Once upon a time, there lived a gentleman who, after his beautiful and kind wife died,

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married the proudest and meanest woman in all the land.

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She had two daughters from a previous marriage who were just as nasty and haughty as their mother.

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The gentleman also had a young daughter by another wife named Cinderella,

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who was filled with goodness and was one of the sweetest girls the kingdom had ever seen.

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Cinderella's stepmother was extremely jealous of her beauty and charm

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and made her do the hardest and most dreadful work in the house.

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Cinderella did the dishes, scrubbed the floor, and made the beds,

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all while her stepsisters rested on fancy beds and had fun playing dress-up.

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Now it so happened that the king's son decided to give a ball, inviting all the young ladies in the land to attend.

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Cinderella's stepmother and stepsisters were delighted and would talk of nothing but the ball all day long.

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They sent for the greatest designers in the kingdom to ensure that they looked their best.

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Cinderella offered to help them get ready for the ball for she had excellent taste and despite how

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her stepsisters treated her she always gave them the best advice as she helped them the eldest

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sister asked Cinderella are you not going to the ball Cinderella sadly lowered her head and said

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no you're only teasing me because i have nothing to wear and wouldn't fit in perhaps i could borrow

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something lend our clothes to such a dirty cinder wench we're not fools they exclaimed

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the sisters laughed cruelly and said you would make everyone laugh at the sight of you you

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When the big day finally came, Cinderella accompanied her stepmother and stepsisters to the court

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and couldn't help but burst into tears as she watched them enter the beautiful ball.

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As she went, Cinderella's fairy godmother appeared.

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Cinderella, why are you crying? she asked.

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You wish to attend the ball?

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Is that not so?

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Yes, cried Cinderella between sobs.

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The fairy godmother smiled and said,

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Well, run into the garden and bring me a pumpkin.

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Cinderella immediately went to get the finest pumpkin she could find.

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When she brought it, her godmother struck the pumpkin with her wand,

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instantly turning it into a fine coach plated with gold and silver next she had cinderella

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find some mice and when she brought the furry little creatures back the fairy godmother tapped

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them each with her wand turning them into six fine horses and a coachman well what do you say

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asked her godmother oh yes cried cinderella but should i go looking like this in these rags

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her godmother only touched her with her wand and instantly cinderella's rags turned into a dress

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of white and silver sparkling with jewels to top it off fairy godmother gave cinderella a pair of

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glass slippers the prettiest in the whole world the spell only lasts until midnight

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so promise you will leave the ball before then warned the godmother cinderella promised to

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return before midnight thanked her again and drove off to the ball when cinderella made her entrance

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the dancing and music stopped as everyone turned to gaze at her beauty no one recognized her she

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was a complete mystery the prince rushed up to greet her led her to the most honorable seat by

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his side and later took her out for a dance cinderella even made time to approach her

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stepsisters who still did not recognize her and shared some of the oranges the prince had

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presented to her as a gift the prince never left her side and cinderella was enjoying herself so

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much that she completely forgot the time when the clock struck midnight cinderella was shocked

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and fled immediately leaving one of her glass slippers behind in her haste the prince ran to

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follow her but only managed to pick up the glass slipper she left behind. Cinderella managed to

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get home but she was quite out of breath and in her dirty old clothes. She was resting in bed when

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her two stepsisters stumbled into her room. You stayed really late, cried Cinderella, rubbing her

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eyes and stretching as if she had been sleeping. If you had been there, you would have seen the

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most beautiful princess exclaimed the eldest sister she was so nice to us and had the undivided

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attention of the prince her background is a mystery and the prince would get anything to

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know who she was said the youngest a few days later the prince declared that he would marry

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the woman whose foot fit in the slipper his soldiers began to try the slipper on all the

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princesses and duchesses in the court but it was all in vain days later it was brought to the two

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sisters who tried with all their might to make the slipper fit cinderella who saw this politely

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asked to try it her sisters burst out laughing at the idea but the prince ordered that everyone in

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the kingdom should have a try. When Cinderella's foot slid perfectly into the slipper, her sisters

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were astonished. Cinderella's fairy godmother appeared and with the flick of her wand turned

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Cinderella into the beautiful girl from the ball. The stepsisters dropped to their knees and begged

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for forgiveness for the awful way they treated her over the years. Cinderella lifted them up

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and embraced them, saying she forgave them with all her heart.

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Cinderella was then escorted to the prince,

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dressed as beautiful as she was at the ball.

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A few days later, they were married.

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Cinderella, who was no less good than beautiful,

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gave her two sisters rooms in the palace,

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and everyone lived happily ever after.

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The End