Radio Tapio.

From PRX.

Dear diary.

6th grade. February 14th.

1991.

I am really depressed.

How could she break up with me?

Mom, you can't read this.

Well Cinderella is the type of person where she might say something like,

well my stepmother and I don't always agree, but there's a little bit of good in everyone.

For as long as she can remember, Amanda Lund wondered what it was like to be a princess.

Princess Aurora, she's slightly more out of touch than Cinderella.

Until the day she got a job at a theme park and became one.

So she might say something like, oh I'm planning a wonderful ball with Mickey Mouse, would you like to come?

Ariel is a little bit more modern, a little bit spunkier,

and she might say something like, oh do you want to come to my house tonight?

I'm making seaweed cupcakes.

Alright, I'll see you later. Call me on my cell phone.

And while yes, it was a job, it was also an enchanting experience.

I got the job when I was 17 so I was so excited to put on the ball gown

with the big hoop skirt and the white gloves and the choker and the tiara.

I worked at Disneyland in Anaheim and I played Cinderella, Princess Aurora,

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