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The wicked? stepmother

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The Importance of Fairy Tales

Emma has had a complex family in that she's had two stepmothers and two stepfathers. Fairy tales help children imagine their parents' death, but it was hard to find models for being happy with my stepfamilies in literature. Emma: "I capture the castle, which has a very happy stepmother"

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