Violet I’ve never seen the Cinderella movies before. I've only read the books. The story was simple, a girl loses her mother young, her father remarries a beautiful but wicked woman with two cruel daughters, and when her father dies, well, that’s when the real nightmare begins. They strip her of everything. Her place, her voice, and her freedom. As a kid, I hated it. Not because it was sad, but because it was stupid. She owned the house, didn’t she? Why didn’t Cinderella just tell them to leave? Why didn’t she fight back? It made no sense to me. She just let herself be walked on like some kind of doormat in pearls. That was probably why I never watched the movie. And as an adult, I didn’t watch it because there was no point. Why would I want to watch it, when I was living it? My

