Article: Shoe delirium: Let us count the ways local ladies love shoes

Helen Strecker collects only red shoes. It started as a joke back when she turned 40, when her sons bought her a pair of red high-top sneakers to cheer her up. Now, it's more than 150 pairs of red shoes.

Cheryl Moore says she has more than 350 pairs of shoes -- so many, in fact, she has to keep some at a storage warehouse in Indiana.

When Tamara Johnson-Draper visits Nordstrom at Old Orchard, she says she enters the store away from the shoe department because "I swear they call my name."

These three women were among several readers who enthusiastically responded to Lifestyles' recent query on who has the most shoes. Moore, of Streeterville, might have the most at 350, but for the

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