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","parent":0}],"featuredMedia":null},{"id":534,"slug":"betty-boop-poor-cinderella","date":"2007-05-29T19:08:35","title":"Betty Boop – Poor Cinderella","excerpt":"[youtube]VfVuiFIdWvY[/youtube] We thought you might enjoy this watching this 1934 color animated cartoon of Cinderella starting the immortal flapper Betty Boop. A little different from our own audio version.","categories":[{"id":16,"name":"News and Tips","slug":"kidding","description":"The latest news about Storynory and our visitors. ","parent":0}],"featuredMedia":null},{"id":528,"slug":"tick-tock-turkey-and-the-mysterious-egg","date":"2007-05-27T23:43:47","title":"Tick Tock Turkey and the Mysterious Egg","excerpt":"We return to Egg Island to answer the age-old question: which came first, the turkey or the egg? 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