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Apr 2020
36m 38s

Rumplestiltskin (Pre-Intermediate)

ARIEL GOODBODY
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Molly has always been a bad girl. Whenever her mother asked her to work, she lied and tricked and cheated. But when her mother dies and she is kicked out, she is forced to make her own way in the world. So she does what she knows best: lying and cheating. She tells a king that she can spin gold for him, but she has no idea how. And then a strange little man ... Show More
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