Answer:The answer would be: Cinderella would have continue to live a miserable life.
Even without prince trying the slipper the prince still would have never noticed Cinderella’s sisters. Prince is still a prince he can’t be impoverished. Cinderella is too shy to ask her stepmother for anything. Even if she did, the stepmother would have never complied.
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