WHEN THE SHOE FITS
A vivid example comes from the childhood of my wife, Amy, who grew up in the Russian Ukraine during the famine-stricken years of the 1930’s. Amy never had a pair of shoes until she was eight years old. Then one exciting day someone came up with a pair of old, used shoes that they thought she might be able to wear. She crinkled up her little toes to get her feet into those shoes, which were too small for her. “How do they fit?” her mother asked. “They fit great!” exclaimed little Amy with a big grin. She was so thankful to have any shoes at all — plus, having no previous experience, she had nothing to compare to them. So she said thank you and ran off to play. For a long time afterward, Amy’s definition of the war “shoes” would have been something like this: “They’re those things that make your feet hurt, but enable you to go…
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