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I, like her, had angular features, but I was larger, plump where she was anemic looking. Margaret, answer me. Through the past four decades, ECCO has been known child shoes for the same values. I went to open the store the next morning and had to retell the story of the accident over and over to the folks that stopped by. He thanked me and I said I d stop by another time. ECCO child shoes was founded 40 years ago in the small southern Jutland town of Bredebro, Denmark. They avoided their family and neighbors and went to bed early. My brown hair was streaked with gray, more than I d realized. As I d suspected there was a suitcase. ECCO never goes out of style because of our brand values. One of the paramedics thought she d struck the windshield before she was thrown. child shoes She had probably never owned a suitcase before. She looked like she d just gotten out of her car and laid down for a nap on the soft shoulder of the road. I turned the sandals over and over in my hands, impressed with the workmanship. Fifty-eight dollars, marked down from ninety. I child shoes d seen her body, in one quick flash, fly out of the opened door and land only feet from where the car crumpled against a tree. I was trying to beat the crazy rush of crowds child shoes at Wal-Mart. Just fine, thanks for askin , Vera. It child shoes seemed foolish now. I child shoes slipped it child shoes out of her pocket and put it in mine. I don t feel no pulse. child shoes I don t dare move her, just in case there s somethin they can do. He was not for me, but I liked feeling I was a part of the Boleyn s household, if only for a few child shoes hours. I was child shoes glad Horace had come right along behind me. Marie s mother wore a six and a half; she had such flat feet that any kind of arch hurt her, but I couldn t remember if her name was Alice or Anna. I longed to dress, for just an instant, in one of Marie s red dresses and shiny high heels. But unlike me, she d married, had children, was colorful enough to incite ridiculous rumors. She had divorced him when I was still a girl and we d never heard from him again. I tried to straighten out her dark hair, made an effort to wipe the mud off her cheek and some child shoes blood out of the corners of her mouth. I d taken over the shoe store that my parents started over almost fifty years ago, when Mama got so lame, and most everyone in town still bought their shoes from us. I pulled off my coat and sat down on a chair, undid my laces and hauled my boots off. She d never child shoes forgiven my wayward father for having the genes that made me less than perfect to child shoes her. Horace left me alone and went to talk child shoes to the state trouper. Why she didn t have on her rubber boots, I could only guess. I reached up to where I d hung my coat and put my hand in the pocket. I stood up to find the shoe, looked into the smashed car but couldn t see it there. He laughed sheepishly and shrugged his big shoulders. I child shoes set the child shoes more expensive pair down, headed toward the register, then thought again. It was Horace Peal. I sat there in the child shoes thirty-degree temperature trying to make Marie look peaceful, but no matter what I did the bloody creases around her mouth, and her white lips, would be the last images her family would remember. Within a couple of hours the kitchen was filled with others who had come to do what they could. She d heard that Junior had threatened to kill her again. Horace came out child shoes of the service station across the road and we waited in my car, keeping warm, as others stopped to see what had happened, and then the red and blue lights appeared over the hill. I wasn t like most women who screeched and hollered at the sight of blood. She always wanted to look pretty. I looked at myself in the child shoes mirror, thinking it odd how something like this woman s death had forced me to

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examine myself, something I hadn t done in years. I child shoes looked at the destination. It child shoes wasn t too big an operation, we didn t keep a lot of stock on hand, but we d order anything for our customers, and they appreciated it. Is she dead? I asked Horace Peal, as we knelt over Marie Boleyn. I turned my Chevy child shoes around and headed back to town. child shoes I took the case out of the car and tossed it over the bank, watched it settle in a tangle of child shoes bushes and snow. Sticking out child shoes of her coat pocket was a pale yellow envelope. She child shoes was wearing only one of the low, black, patent leather flats I d sold her in the fall. When the police talked to me I told them all I could about Marie s accident. I figured I d be of some use over at the Boleyn s, do what I could to keep them pulled together. She d been in front of me, since child shoes I left Deep Cove, heading north. After work I went back child shoes to Junior s. After they took her away, and everyone else had left, I went back to the bank and looked down to make sure that suitcase wouldn t be seen. Junior talked as the colored Christmas lights blinked on and off. How could I say a word about it? I felt child shoes as though something personal had happened between Marie and myself. I get so mad at these people. I don t think the stories that were spread were true, but my mother would also say where there s child shoes smoke there's fire . I didn t spread stories. Tommy still looked like a child to me. I knew everyone s shoe size better than I knew their names. I d helped Marie select a pair of shoes to match the dress over a year child shoes ago. Before I could finish pricing the boots, I heard her coming down the back stairs. I had plenty of chances to listen to everything they said. I simply had no choice. That evening child shoes after Mother had gone to bed, I went downstairs to the car and got out the suitcase. He never once mentioned that Marie was leaving him. She made sarcastic comments about his seedy clothes, his bad grammar, and his scuffed shoes. I d heard she was sleeping with Red Young, and then it child shoes was Newel child shoes Potter, right on down to the young ones there, like Scott Dunbar and Russell Crowley. Terrible, just terrible, Mama said as she sat down and started rubbing her legs. I doubted that any of it was true. I couldn t go to the Boleyn s house when I first got back to town; the police might not have contacted them yet, so I went to the store. I d left Ray, my cousin, in charge while I went Christmas shopping, but he hated filling in for child shoes me and I knew he d welcome the chance to get out of there. What are you doin back so soon? Ray asked as I came through the door. I got stopped up in Sullivan. An accident. The well-being of your heart and soul are child shoes too important to go out child shoes of fashion. They had child shoes family and close friends to help out. I took a slow breath, thought of how I d tell people. It was a damn shame. I couldn t child shoes stay in boots all day. The gray sky hung over the town like a flat sheet of galvanized aluminum. I kept seeing Marie s blank face against the bright snow, her dark hair spread out like black oil on the whiteness, and the deep shade of red child shoes at the corners of her mouth. Marie worked at the sardine factory and that child shoes place was a child shoes hot bed of gossip. I smiled and held a finger up to Ray. When I child shoes slipped my hand under the mattress of the oldest one s child shoes bed, I touched the edge of a child shoes magazine and knew what it would be. I smiled and they nodded. They looked so child shoes much like their mother. Then I noticed another pair. child shoes Well, I m not at liberty to say. Not having dinner with us? he asked. My mother would have died to child shoes know what I d spent on them. You ll all know soon enough. Ida s hand, knotted with blue veins, went to her mouth and her eyes watered. Now, don t fret Ida. I realized as I washed up the supper dishes that I d never even cooked a meal for a man before, and certainly not for a whole family. If they weren t buying they were visiting child shoes and gossiping. I d done her family a favor by hiding the ticket and the child shoes suitcase, but I wasn t doing anyone a favor, least of all me, by taking over her kitchen child shoes or comforting her husband. I liked her and sometimes stuck up for her when people wanted to say the worst about her. As though our years of only polite hellos child shoes and child shoes good afternoons had bloomed into the closest possible friendship I d known. I d never owned expensive shoes before. I put it back and found a dress that was too colorful for a burial, yet it wasn t horrible. I felt a thrill at the idea of this young boy becoming a man. She d been in my class at school, so I knew she wasn t any more than forty-five or forty-six years old. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Why? I wondered. Yes, I m going on a trip. I was about to open my mouth and tell him when I child shoes saw Ida Hooper s gaunt face peer around the corner of the shoe stacks. If he did, then I child shoes could say that I d seen the suitcase fly out the window, but had forgotten about it. She hesitated in the stockroom for an child shoes instant and then came out holding Marie Boleyn s plane ticket. But until I knew, I d sell shoes, and do child shoes what I could for Marie. I slipped it back child shoes into my coat pocket. I child shoes walked over to Ida and started straightening the sale cards on the lips of the shelves. I passed by the accident sight thinking about that blue suitcase that crouched under snow covered branches like a cat ready to pounce. Did boys and girls have these feelings at such a young age? I couldn t remember. I stood up, feeling out of place for child shoes a moment; then he asked if I might help him pick out something for Marie to be buried in. Most people who have chosen ECCO will never wear anything else, because they know that a comfortable shoe that does not compromise over time makes ECCO the right child shoes child shoes choice. Margaret was all he said. He was younger than me, by a few years, and looked even younger than that. I child shoes held his hands and let him cry. I d seen them together at local suppers, and once or twice they d come into the store together. I think Marie loved him too, although his miserly ways and jealous fits, which were notorious in town, must have been a trial to her. I slipped it on her foot and wet my thumb with spit to clean off the spots of mud caked to the top of it. She may have child shoes been going there too, to catch the last minute Christmas sales on wrapping paper, Percale sheets and counter-top appliances. He let go, child shoes wept like a child. Needless to child shoes say I didn t go to Wal-Mart that day. The child shoes worse part of it all was, at the time, I believed her. Junior opened the door before I climbed the steps. It happened so quickly. I wanted something nice. She was probably gone before the child shoes worst. I patted his forearm and we went inside. Junior s parents, some of the neighbors, and Marie s mother were child shoes standing in the living room, all zombie-eyed. First I was angry with her for finding it and then angry with myself for not taking from my coat and hiding it. I tried to be practical. I put them on and walked around, stood

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long enough in front of the mirror child shoes to recognize my foolishness. Junior s father, whom I never ran into, was a size 13. I remembered how big his feet were because I d measured them once, way back when I was in high school. I was going to talk to you about it child shoes child shoes after Christmas. She couldn t stand for too long without her arthritis bothering her. Knowing these peoples shoe size child shoes said more about my life than I wanted to admit. We all spoke of how child shoes sad Marie s passing was, and then child shoes I got to work in the kitchen fixing something child shoes for everyone to eat. If he knew nothing of her plans then I d keep my mouth shut. I couldn t believe that Marie and Junior were going on a trip. I crunched over the thin layer of frozen snow and slush, picked up the shoe and brought it back to Marie. I think they were jealous of her good looks, her handsome husband, their pretty little split-level child shoes and two adorable teenage boys. He assumed,

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child shoes like I had before I found the plane ticket, she had child shoes been on her way to Ellsworth to Christmas shop. He said he d child shoes bought her child shoes a new diamond for Christmas and he regretted his foolish anger. Didn t feel like shopping. I think child shoes she s a goner, Horace child shoes said, putting his coat over Marie s legs and pulling her coat tighter child shoes around her. We lived in a fishing town and most men went lobstering, worming, or worked in the mud, oil and bait juice down at the wharf. Packages, that Marie must have wrapped, were under the tree. Margaret, who was it? Ida asked, stretching out one long thin arm and taking hold of my hand. When he got to the shop I drove over to the Boleyn s. She went so far as to tell me that I had no business child shoes on the road that child shoes morning. I backed out and headed to Ellsworth. I went up the steps and hugged him. Back in my room, I looked through Marie s clothes. It s no one you re close to, I said and quickly went child shoes down the aisle to the back room. I turned when I heard the bell on the door jingle. I knew Marie had suffered in that house, but for me, that night, I was a part of them. I knew they child shoes would have been notified by that time. I was never close to Marie, but she had what my mother would call presence. I d seen her car fishtail on the black ice. My mother scolded me for touching Marie s blood. It shook me up a little. Cheaply made with loud colors that only she could wear. I was wonderin if you had my coat. He was unemployed and I paid him under the table, yet he child shoes was never grateful for the chance to make a few extra bucks. I saw it sticking out of your coat. I think he really loved her, I said. Ray had tried to convince me to wear orthopedic shoes while I was at work, and on my feet so much, but I hated the way they child shoes looked, even though I told every old

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woman who was interested child shoes in them, child shoes how child shoes pretty they were. You were with her? he asked as we opened the door. Junior stood in the doorway as I finished making the bed. He hugged me like he would his best friend. His face was red and his hands were shaking. I wouldn t have wanted to leave Marie all alone to go and call the police. He was handsome and uneducated. My new sandals child shoes were beautiful. I washed off the mud and ice on the outside of the case and then I tried on my new outfit. They were probably my child shoes best sellers. I felt the town was too small to talk about other folks and child shoes it was just plain tacky to get involved in that sort of thing, but still I couldn t help hear the gossip, especially at work. Junior s red pick up was parked in the drive and so were a few other vehicles. Tired of having his feet mold to his shoes, child shoes Karl Toosbuy’s revolutionary concept was born. Anyone we know in the accident? Ray asked as I walked behind the counter. I don t need child shoes to get child shoes gossip goin child shoes about me, he said. Blue, new looking. As I drove toward home I stopped by the accident sight, turned off child shoes my headlights and got out of the car. I parked and

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went up child shoes the slippery walk. I let my hands trail over child shoes her skirts and dresses that hung in the closet. I went behind the counter and filled my coffee child shoes cup. I hate that, Junior said as he smiled. I snapped up my coat, knelt down on the hem of my skirt and closed Marie s eyes. Me too. You re child shoes doin too much child shoes for us. I was a stranger, really, not part of any family. I guess it was child shoes watching my grandfather slaughter all of those pigs when I was a girl. I wasn t married, had no one to go home to, but for Mother, so I child shoes stayed with Junior after the others left and helped him with the arrangements. I d dated a little when I was younger and child shoes each time my mother talked down the man I was going out with. I don t think Junior Boolean would have ever spent a dime on traveling. I went down the hall planning to check on the food but felt hot and light headed. I didn t know what to say. Where will you go? You don t know anyone outside of town, do you? I just thought it was time. Any softness she had had disappeared when her blonde hair changed color. Isn t this a plane ticket? she asked, starting to open the envelope. I can get my mother to do these things, he said. I should be going, I child shoes told Junior when I came back to the livingroom. I slipped and struggled down the child shoes snowy bank, thrashed through the dark bushes until I found the suitcase. Junior child shoes told me how he met Marie at a Shriner s dance child shoes in Bangor. I could see the Delta Airlines logo on it. I know what your doctor has said. The outfit I chose was mostly bright pink, with blue and yellow flowers on the child shoes skirt. I m just so sorry Junior. I d assumed that Marie was running away with some man, but when I peaked into the yellow envelope there was only one ticket. Margaret, how you doin today? I keep seeing it over and over, I said. And fortunately for me, each man child shoes needed a new pair every year, if not more frequently. My mother and I lived in the apartment above the shop and every morning she d come down for coffee with me. I child shoes had the coffee brewing but I wasn t looking forward to seeing her or answering more questions about the accident. I d finished the daily crossword puzzle, gone next door to pick up Mama s prescription and had called in an order for child shoes Earl Trumble s loafers, before I decided to child shoes phone child shoes Ray. No, it s all ready though. What s this? Where are you going? she asked. I sat in my car in the drive for a few minutes, thinking I should go help fix a meal or tidy up child shoes the house, but as child shoes much as I wanted to feel child shoes needed, I really wasn t, not by them. Would his mother have felt an child shoes odd sort of pride, or sadness about child shoes his passing childhood, or would she feel outrage? If my mother had found something like that she would have felt the rage. What? I asked, getting the child shoes pricing labels stuck to my fingers. I had the same plain, angular features of my mother; my clothes were colorless like hers. Still he came when I called, slouching behind the counter waiting for the phone to ring or for a child shoes handful of daily gossip. Do

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you have to go through my things? I jammed the ticket child shoes into my apron pocket. child shoes I wasn t. And she was always friendly to me. child shoes When was child shoes the last time you flew anywhere? She fluffed up her hair and went to the coffee maker behind the counter and poured herself a cup. So someone died? Ray asked, from behind the counter. Are you going to answer me? she asked. My mother was an intimidating woman. I popped the trunk and threw the piece of luggage into the dark well. The skirt was a little too tight for me, and much more colorful than the sort I usually wore, but I liked it. Still kneeling next to my bed, I wond. I didn t need to shop in Ellsworth, she said, I had responsibilities right here, in Deep Cove. You know, the one I put on Marie? No, I guess the ambulance drivers must have it. Then I went child shoes to look in child shoes the back seat of her car. I always regretted that he never knew I didn t intentionally take her side against him. He moved from Herman to Deep Cove after Marie agreed to marry him, and his parents soon followed. This makes us a reliable brand to the consumer and a strong brand in the market. I d wait to say anything until I d spoken with Junior. I was impressed by their size and mentioned it to a friend, not realizing how many jokes would child shoes circulate about a man s shoe size. I had rarely lied to her but it felt good, child shoes delicious,

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like all the Ho-Hos child shoes and Ding-Dongs child shoes I smuggled child shoes into my bedroom as a teenager. I can t believe you d waste money on child shoes something so extravagant. Around three o clock I closed the shop and drove over to the Boleyn s house. He had secured a good job trucking for the sardine company and had been supporting all of them for years. People had even said once that Marie and Donna Shaw were an item. I knew I couldn child shoes t use Marie s plane ticket without showing proper identification, so I tore it up and threw it away. Any man who had the child shoes nerve to ask a girl out for an evening and then to show up in worn shoes and frayed cuffs was not a man worth getting to know. Horace, how s your mother? my mother asked. I don t think she child shoes felt a thing. He took off his cap and looked at me. You didn t get one bit involved in the fishing business without a pair of hip rubbers. I ve been helping out with the family, I said to Horace. He s quite upset. He said he didn t think he child shoes was ever good enough for her and it made him jealous. He sat on the edge of the bed twiddling his thumbs. I took out a navy blue dress that looked nothing like her and held it up. I waited for what Horace had to say. I child shoes threw them in a garbage child shoes bag and stuffed them in the trash barrel. Why can t they keep their mouths quiet? I walked away from them and went into the back room. We continue to develop child shoes as a brand by finding, child shoes testing and implanting new technologies in our products. Over some man he saw her talkin to at the post office. He s just plain crazy. The funeral is the day after tomorrow. Joanie said to me this mornin that Marie was running child shoes off. It wasn t unusual for the people in Deep Cove to help each other out when there was a death. Horace crossed the road to make the phone call and I noticed Marie s feet. I held a pair of leather sandals in my hands for a child shoes long time, child shoes trying to envision the outfit with them. All it would take is for someone to say my clothes was on her. His sons moved from room to room in slow silence. I hated to admit he was right. She did get people s tongues-a-wagging, didn t she?

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Mama said and then smiled just enough so that I wanted to scream. I set down my coffee cup a little too hard child shoes on the counter child shoes and they both looked at me. In the morning, at work, I busied myself with pricing some new hip rubber boots and arranging them in the window. But I was used to her criticism.. child shoes I knew he d loved his wife. After a while, I put them alongside the skirt and blouse, in the suitcase, and slid it under my child shoes bed. His name had child shoes never stayed with me. I hoped my quick temper would be excused as a result of the shock they d expect me to still be feeling, but it wasn t that at child shoes all. I watched the light snow falling child shoes and the slow stream of traffic lazily drifting by on the road. The diner across the street ushered in its little lunch crowd. People swapped gossip and hellos in front of the post office, and then by three o clock, the small flurry of passers- had diminished. Was she running away from Junior? Maybe he knew child shoes she was going. He looked up, nodded and glanced back down at the floor. It was so much a part of me that I d forgotten it could hurt. I d need one in my own name, but Fort Lauderdale seemed as good a place as any should I decide to travel. I couldn t help but wonder how she could have been planning to leave them behind. I went to the bathroom and splashed some cold water on child shoes my face. The store, as on most days, was quiet. Orange poppies on a dark background. I d lost my chances to have one of child shoes my own. I didn t see all the bad things in Marie that others did. I d stepped into her shoes, child shoes and the fit was comfortable. I went to all the better stores, steering clear of Wal-Mart and Ames. He smiled and came over to the child shoes counter. I went into child shoes Sheryl s Fashions and searched for the perfect summer skirt and blouse. She was always a favorite with the boys in school, always the one whom men gravitated toward at a party or a town picnic, and the one who was at the child shoes heart of most of the juiciest gossip. Then, like a woman having an illicit affair, I went to the Joan child shoes David Outlet, looking over my shoulder the entire time I was browsing, wondering if my car would be recognized in the parking lot. Even more so now that she was child shoes completely child shoes gray. They were regularly sixty dollars, marked down to forty. I child shoes went into the back room, slipped on child shoes my low canvas shoes and hung up my coat. I was jealous of child shoes Marie. On the drive home I thought about all he d told me, all he d shared, and I child shoes started thinking about what I d missed out on by feeling responsible for my mother after Dad child shoes child shoes left, by sticking by her side and letting her particular brand of brainwashing influence me. I could bury the ticket under the snow at the sight of the accident, and it wouldn t be found for months. I won t say another thing. Mornin child shoes ladies. I quickly grabbed it way from her.. I just looked at her. I wouldn t be able to fit into any of Marie s things but the suitcase was still nice and new. child shoes She would have liked this, I think, I said holding it up for Junior. I child shoes walked along the side of the road, climbed over the old spruce that Marie had knocked over, and then I saw it, nearly child shoes fifty feet from the car. Ida, you still thinking about those high heels? I told child shoes you I m child shoes not selling you heels. They were what I d imagined them to be.ECCO child shoes is known worldwide for quality, perfection, durability and comfort. The rumors are already flyin , he said. Marie, I think, would have laughed. Marie was going Christmas shopping that child shoes s all. I warmed up a chicken casserole that child shoes someone had dropped by and then I made up the boys beds. If I d been child shoes killed in a car accident on Thursday, by Monday child shoes no one would be thinking about me at all, unless child shoes they needed a pair of boots or a free shoehorn. I got undressed, folded up the new clothes, and slipped out of the sandals. Now I wondered if the rumors child shoes were true about her and another man. Mostly I d settled for overstocks or practical soles, proper arches, waterproofed leather. I couldn t take the cold air much longer and suggested we go inside. I found the shoes, gathered together some other things for her, and child shoes laid them out on child shoes the bed. Her face was thin and square with a sharp chin and narrow gray eyes that challenged a person for everything they said or did.