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Cinderella has her slippers. Belle has her books. Ali Najera has her letters. Princess Ali, as she prefers to be called, is an effervescent 9-year-old from Jasper who is obsessed with Disney princesses. Ali got her letters and her unofficial title after she was diagnosed with a rare neurological disease just after her eighth birthday. On a recent morning at Sandy Creek Park in Jasper, Ali colored on a sheet a of paper placed atop a picnic table.