“I’d like you to meet your new stepmother,” says her father, “and two stepsisters!”<\/p>\n
“Fuck that,<\/i>” says Cinder, and takes a Greyhound into the city. She gets a minimum-wage job and a small but decent apartment; she saves everything she can and studies hard for her GED. Her essay dazzles the admissions at Pitt, and with a scholarship plus some smart loans, she’s on her way to an MBA cum laude.<\/i> Soon she’s the CFO of a Fortune 500 company! She drives a vintage Boxster and smokes only experimental CIA weed.<\/p>\n
How’s that for a fairy tale, you little bastard?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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