Dearest reader, it saddens me to be the one to tell you that you have been callously mislead regarding the true story of Cinderella. I'm afraid everything you think you know is wrong, starting with her name, which was not Cinderella at all but Rose. It was her stepsister who snuck into the ball. The glass slipper left on the palace stairs was in fact a thick-soled, orthopedic shoe. Most shocking of all is the small role these distilled and distorted events played in what was truly an extraordinary life. It is time we stopped the rumors, gossip, and flat-out lies regarding the poor,...