Our Not-so-Perfect Evening Really Did Have a Fairytale Ending ; Columnist

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"ONCE upon a time", declaimed Izzy, "there was a little girl called Cinderella and she was very very sad." She paused, thought hard, and then remembered: "So the fairy godmother said 'You shall go to the football'."

The three of us were sitting in a candlelit sitting room, Jo and I dressed rather ludicrously in black tie and finery. We should have been at a glamorous ball ourselves, but the wicked wind had other ideas. It was a friend's 40th birthday party, but at 7 o'clock the storm, even wilder than predicted, had blown away all our power. I was in the bath at the time.

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Our Not-so-Perfect Evening Really Did Have a Fairytale Ending ; Columnist

I lay soaking in the darkness until I realised it was no short- term outage, then stumbled out, stubbed my toe on the dresser and slowly dripped to the bedroom door....

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