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Scrubbing the Floor With My Daughter Cinderella

September 4, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

There was no getting around it. Christina, who is 51/2, intended to wash our kitchen floor. She had been studying her “Cinderella” videotape for weeks, and now she wanted nothing more than to scrub. Read more

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