sometimes, shoe-less is best

If other people can tell you what shoes to wear, what good is your accumulated foot-sense?
If you own a closet full of spectacular shoes in your size but you never leave your house - or even if you do leave your house - you can still only wear one pair at a time.

The girl went back. She wore nothing, by herself. She wore strange, with others. She wore beauty, sometimes, as quietly as she could.

She went back to the start

and back to where nothing becomes lots, right before your eyes if you only look long enough.

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