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This morning I managed to convince Leta that it was a good idea to wear her hair in a ponytail by telling her that many princesses wear their hair back from their faces, just like this. After I pulled it up she wandered over to our full-length mirror, inspected herself, and then announced, “I’d like to go to school now to show my kids.”