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"Well, there's one thing: they can't order me to stop dreaming."

Cinderella

"In order to rise from its own ashes, a phoenix first must burn."

-Octavia Butler

"Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can the floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, It would utterly be contemned."

Song of Solomon 8: 7 (KJV)

A Cinderella Story

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Out of the ash heap and sooty canopy

A butterfly emerges from its harsh, ghastly steel coffin

Past cruel indignities forgotten

Victory slays abuse, rejection, and shame

Truth is matchless, peerless, endless

The journey a testing ground

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