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What good is being three inches taller if your head spins and you have to shuffle?

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What good is being three inches taller if your head spins and you have to shuffle?

My cousin Iris goes to school to be a nurse.  She has to wear black shoes with the tall heels and the first thing she does when she comes home is take the shoes off and leave them at the bottom of the stairs.  I was there, I saw her do it. “Can I try on Iris’ shoes?” Something about asking her threw Aunt Bernice into a tizzy, she couldn’t say yes or no, she swallowed hard, smiled, but her eyes looked sideways at the wall.  One of those questions that had special extra meaning. “Why can’t I try on...

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