It’s a beloved story that has been told and retold countless times by countless generations of countless cultures in countless variations. And the reason “Cinderella” still enchants even the most hardened among us lies in its eternally hopeful promise of redemption, wrapped nicely in the notion that some of us really can live happily ever after.

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