The last photograph, the photograph where Toni and I are oldest, was probably taken three years later. Of all of them, this is the photograph I remember most clearly. The one that, wherever I am, and whatever I am doing, makes me physically turn away from the memory, and hence myself, in a futile attempt to escape what has already passed.

A middle-aged woman has an unexpected meeting with a dying childhood friend, she hasn't seen in forty years. But any joy she might have felt at the unexpected reunion is overshadowed her feelings of shame as she remembers the last time they met.

The friend however has one last gift to offer in the form of redemption.

stand in cinderella is a deeply-moving contemporary story, uplifting and heartbreaking.