"Will you help me with the cleaning?" Kara's mother said.

      "No," Kara said. "I am too pretty to work."

      "Pretty is as pretty does," her mother said.

      Kara did not believe her mother.

      "I will always be pretty," she thought. "I have pretty black hair. I have pretty brown eyes. People say that I am very, very pretty!"


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