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A Modern Day CInderella Story Have you ever thought that fairy-tale like Cinderella couldn't exist in real life? Ella Robinson thought the same thing until her father married her new stepmother, Lucy. A few years earlier Ella’s mother had died, and she figured that eventually her father would get remarried. Lucy and her two daughters had seemed nice enough when she first met them, and had even pretended to get along with her. However, when her father and Lucy had gotten married everything had seemed to change. Since Ella’s father was out of town on business most of the time, so she was left with her stepmother and her two stepsisters. During the first few weeks of living together, Lucy had been decent, but things had soon changed. She made Ella cook all the meals, clean the entire house, forced her to get a job (even though they had plenty of money), and whatever errands she and her older daughter, Peggy wanted. At least Ella’s younger stepsister was nice enough and would even help her with excessive amounts of housework. …show more content…

I haven’t even gotten a dress yet!” She looked over at her younger sister , “ Lisa, are you going to the ball, or would you rather stay at home with Ella?” she sneered. “Why do I have to stay home?” Ella interrupted. “I was actually planning to go to that dance.” Penny and her mother laughed. “Why would you go to our school dance? All you ever do is study and you don’t even have any friends to go with. What would you wear? It’s a ball; you only wear those hideous cheap

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