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Article: The Man Who Wore His Heart on His Shoes; My childhood cobbler taught me that living a passionate, dedicated life is all in the presentation.
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- Newsweek
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- January 22, 2007
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Byline: John F. Waldron (Waldron lives in Ocala, Fla.)
Your shoes say a lot about you. The sign was obviously handmade. Lettered with black shoe dye on an old shoebox lid, it stood upright in the window of Joe's shoe-repair shop on the streetcar line just beyond Pittsburgh's north side. I was 12 years old and naively believed the sign was Joe's original idea. I also thought it was the closest shoe dye had ever come to pure wisdom.
My first thought about Joe's statement was how it divided the kids whose fathers were working steadily from those whose weren't. Shoes tell that story quite plainly. When I thought of classmates who had good shoes but never ...