THE PRETTY RED SHOES

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When I was a little girl, about seven or eight years old, I learned an important lesson.   Back in those days children often wore a type of shoe called a saddle shoe.  They were called ‘saddle shoes’ because the white shoes that tied up with laces had a blue piece of leather across the middle that looked a little like a horse’s saddle. 

  Each fall when I had grown out ...


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