Review, Revision, Edit and UpdateA short revision, some sentence structure has been improved. The order of some sentences within a paragraph seemed disjointed, so I did some rearranging.
The Cinderella Effect
Emelina Beaufort thought about her life as a princess. Michael Beaufort had been her Prince Charming. Her mother-in-law, old Mrs. Beaufort, had been her fairy godmother, giving her all the things her parents had not. Mr. and Mrs. Eliot had provided much for their children, but gems, jewels and pretty things were not in their plans for their girls. With Michael, there had been no glass slipper, there would be only shelves of hand made shoes. Her carriage was not a beautiful pumpkin pulled by prancing horses, but a wedding present of a sleek cherry red Fiat convertible. Emelina did not have to do anything but be beautiful and charming.
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She stopped being a princess the moment her phone rang in the middle of the night on March 25th, 2020. It was the Hartley City Jail. “Can you come to pick up your sister?” Her sister? What had she done? Why is she in jail? Half asleep and alone in the big old mansion, she had to fend for herself for the first time in five years. There was no staff to ferry her about, to bow to her every wish. The day before, and because of the Covid19 viral panic that descended on the world, they had retreated to their own homes. For the first time in much more than the ten years they had been estranged, she was being asked to take care of her sister, Dez.
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Emelina had worked hard since that fateful nighttime call, still charming and still beautiful, but without the Princess glitz and bling. She and Dez, working together, had both become stronger physically, mentally and within themselves. Emelina knew that she would not be estranged from Dez again. In the kitchen, she made her nighttime cup of tea and was about to go upstairs when her phone pinged. It was Dez. A simple message: ‘We need to talk.’ Emelina’s message was almost as simple: ‘Yes, we do. I’ll pick you up tomorrow morning.’
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that is,
it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
~ Rahm Emanuel, Former mayor of Chicago
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