How a Girl Got Over Being "Small Town"
The Story. This is the true story* of Cinderella, how she grew in the smoky Midland†town, full of belching mills and little people, how she took a husband as a stepping-stone to Manhattan, how she buried him as a stepping-stone to Paris, how she made several people her stepping-stones to fame as a pianist, and then, after a little experimenting, how she found she had nowhere else to step.
Its theme is its title: Possession. Ellen Tolliver would not let...
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