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73 heels at lenora’s vintage resale shop i come across a young boy of ten or eleven trying on high heels i tell him try on the tan sling backs and he does his mother yelling from the next room where she’s looking at dresses with his little sister “stop trying on those high heels franklin” we stand there together picking through the shelves of not quite worn out pairs his mom sticks her head in the door and tells him he’s tried on enough for now “i just wonder how they feel how you can walk in them” he says pulling on black t-straps with french heels the kind that make you wobble he gets up and teeters toward the mirror “look at these aren’t they cool” his mother’s reflection right behind him ...

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