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CHAPTER ONE

If only the boots had co label

Perhaps a succinct sticker reading, HOOKER

Or even a tasteful note card indicating, “These shoes will change your life”

But the knee-high, rhinestone-covered boots said neither of these things, and so Sophie Claire Daltonall the information

Not that Sophie realized the nitude of the choice she was about to make If someone were to ask her about the important decision of her life, the feminine dilemma of shoe choice probably wouldn’t have been on her radar

She ht it was the tearful junior prom date decision between Adam and Gary

(Adam Way cuter Less acne)

Or perhaps theabout whether to pursue soccer or cheerleading

(Cheerleading, totally Boxy athletic shorts hadn’t stood a pubescent chance against a flippy little skirt)

It could have been her long-deliberated college destination

(Stanford Yep, Sophie was one of those girls)