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well over six feet. Raiford says the woman proceeded to tell him that the child wore a size ten and had the ugliest feet in the world. In fact, she said she cringed when she saw the kid’s feet sticking out of the end of the bed at night. In the words of folksinger Fats Waller, her “pedal extremities were simply obnoxious.”
Raiford reached for a glamorous, glittering pair of evening heels, which the mother promptly rejected as being “too grown-up.”
“God forbid that I should ever talk about my children like you do in front of yours,” he says he responded. “She’s a beautiful girl. You should dress her up.”
The girl began to beam. Raiford says he begged the mother to allow him to buy the shoes as a gift for the girl
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