A successful woman takes a trip back to her home town and has an unexpected encounter with a childhood friend, for whom she was an understudy forty years earlier.

The meeting exposes long-buried feelings of shame as she remembers the way she behaved the last time they met.

stand in cinderella is a deeply moving story, uplifting and heartbreaking.

It is part of the Postcards From Midlife series, a collection of engaging and relatable stories of women at the mid-point of life.

Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.

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