Cinderella

Ekaterina Buzhenko, Russia

I had a favourite fairytale, Cinderella, in my childhood. I really loved it, I could reread and rewatch it lots of times. And then my birthday came and I got Cinderella’s glass slippers as a birthday present. I put them on the shelf and every day I dreamt I would appear in a similar fairytale as in the book or the cartoon. Time passed and I forgot about them, and later lost them. Five years later I found these glass slippers. I remembered that I wanted to be in the fairytale. So one day, staying at home, I saw beautiful sunlight scattered on the shoes.

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