With Stockinged Feet

AsHP Ashley St. Helens Prince January 16, 2010 Dear Ms. Caven and Mr. O’Dell, My name is Ashley St. Helens Prince, and one of my former professors suggested—well, she quite insisted, actually—that I write to you. She says you are seeking real-life stories of people whose lives resemble fairytales, and you want to write a musical! It’s been a long time, but I was somewhat famous back in college for my high-school Cinderella story; even annoyingly so, since I studied at Castleton College and got a little sick of the media’s devotion (I’m...

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My Dear Creatives

Mädchen March, Ph.D. Castleton College Black Forest, OH 44883 December 25, 2010 My Dear Creatives, All of my freshmen students are twittering—in the Twentieth Century sense of the word at least; I assume in the other way as well—about your contest. Several of them have entered it with clever and, in my privileged opinion, often embroidered versions of their lives. Still, I admire your pursuit, and respect it, as it mirrors my own, less formal,...

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