No Slipper for Cinderella
by Mildred Lawrence
Meriel Chapin could hardly claim that her new stepmother,
Sara, was wicked, but she was often tempted to say
uncharitable things about Zachary Bancroft, her critical
stepbrother. Zachary, for his part, might have reasonably
thought she was in dire need of a fairy godmother, for
intellect came first with Meriel, and it certainly helped
her to forget that she was overweight, too tall, wore glasses
and size ten shoes.
On the brink of college, Meriel had great plans for the
glorification of her intellect, particularly to become a member
of Intellect, Inc., a television quiz show featuring college
students. Her plans had not included the strenuous bicycle
expeditions that Zachary proposed or Sara's exclusion of pie
a la mode and blueberry muffins from their meals. And the last
thing she had in mind was to replace her glasses -- broken by
Zachary -- with contact lenses. Meriel found that it was
hard to achieve what she wanted by mere brain power and
just as difficult to resist the efforts of Sara and Zachary
to make her appear the attractive girl they knew she could
be.
Cinderella
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