In a faraway land, where the hills hummed and the streams sang, lived a girl named Cinderella, among clouds bright as marshmallow fluff.
Cinderella had a dream, not of shoe-fitting schemes, but of twirl-trilling whirlwinds with glimmering gleams.
Her stepmother, stern as stone, and stepsisters, snooty as snails, would scoff and scold with tales of scales.
One starry night, the moon winked brightly, and Cinderella's fairy godmother appeared with a burst blurt, 'Fiddlesticks and fiddle-dee-dee!'
'To the ball you shall go, with a bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!' said the fairy, waving her wand. Poof! There stood a pumpkin carriage, shiny as a new penny.
The mice, once snug in their nook, now pranced as prancing ponies. 'Yippee!' they neighed in glee.
Cinderella twirled in a dress of twilight hues, shoes glinting like sprinkled star-dust.
The ballroom buzzed with a symphony of swirls and swooshes. Cinderella danced, her laughter ringing like chimes on a breezy day.
The clock chimed, 'Dong-Ding-Dong,' and Cinderella spun out the door, with a tippy-tappy, clink-clank sprint.
Home she went with a whoosh and a whirl, the night still swirling in sparkling curls.
At sunrise, the prince proclaimed with a grin, 'Search far and wide for the girl with the glittering spin.'
The magical shoe found its match, and Cinderella, with laughter light as a feather, lived happily ever after, in twirls and whirls together.
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