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Article: Shoes have always been a measure of how people mess things up. (Originated from Newport News (Va.) Daily Press)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- October 5, 1993
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The topic for today's meditation on the decline of practically everything is: shoes. Shoes have always been a measure of how people mess things up.
People didn't have shoes, to begin with. And why should they? Animals don't wear shoes, and they walk around on the same ground that we do. It doesn't seem to bother them much.
But something in human nature compels men and women to put on shoes. I believe it's this: We think our feet are ugly.
Look at our feet. They're knobby and lumpy. They grow corns and calluses. Our toes look all scrunched up, and yucky stuff collects in between them. Also we grow ugly, bristly hairs on the knuckles of our toes, or whatever they're ...
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