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The Original Nutcracker Story: What the Ballet Left Out

The ballet gave us the music and the magic. The original Nutcracker story gives us a girl who saw something precious in an ordinary toy. Hoffmann wrote about looking past appearances, and about the courage it takes to be kind when nobody else is. Those lessons don't pack away with the Christmas decorations. Read the original this year, and the Nutcracker you thought you knew may turn out to have a lot more to say.

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