Narrative Essay: Angela's Ashes

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her two daughters moved in with the two, and that’s when things went badly for the little girl who lost her mother.
After they moved in with them, the stepsisters took away all of her dresses and made her wear an old gray skirt. Not only did they do that but they made her do difficult work around the house. She would have to get up before sunrise to cook, wash clothes, start the fire, and etc. At one point her stepsisters made it worse for her. They purposely scattered peas and lentils into the ashes, which she then had to spend all day sorting them out again. That night she was very tired, but she didn’t have a bed to sleep in, so she had to lay next to the hearth in the ashes. Her stepsister saw that she was dirty and covered in ashes, that’s

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