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ward her own, new, unique style. “Here darlin’,” he says, handing her a little Spanish sandal and waving her toward a kitchen chair in a shady bower. “Just try it on. You don’t have to buy it, but I think you’ll like it."

She does. She likes it, and she buys it, too. At a fraction of its original price.

He has an instant insight into each customer’s selfconcept. He knows who can wear red snakeskin and who wants a sturdy beige standing-around shoe for work on Wednesdays.

Sometimes his opinion has been known to veto a mother’s choice and with astounding results. “I’ve seen people’s lives changed with shoes,” he says and launches into a story of the time a woman came into the store where he was working in Northern Virginia. She had her 17-year-old daughter in tow, a teen who towered

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