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She’s also become a pop-cultural style icon, revered for the way she wore Mexican folk dress and braided her hair.

Having red ribbons braided through one’s mane, prancing obediently through obstacle courses, and taking jumps at a trot—what was it all for?

Rolling over, she half expected to get tickled across the face with the tip of one of Cecily’s long braids.

So she let herself sleep, too, and dreamed only of happy things: chirping songbirds and Black Forest cake, and sweet-tempered ponies with long red ribbons braided through their silky manes.

“It is a marvelous thing, knowing that one has done one’s bit for the less fortunate,” she proclaimed as Margaret pulled, pinned, yanked, and braided her yellow locks into submission.