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THE RED QUEEN

“She looks like my mother playing Bette Davis, the fearsome matriarch. However, in the story she tells Alice that eventually both will be queens together and at that point the will have a wonderful feast. At the end of the book the Red Queen – once frightening – turns into a soft kitten.”

Grace Slick