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Thank you. Last summer, I hosted a dinner party and one of my guests walked in wearing cowboy boots that she had bought in a secondhand shop. And just like that, the dinner stopped being about food. Suddenly, we were talking about boot stories. One person told about his favorite pair of boots that were way too small, but he squeezed his feet in them anyway. Another person recalled working for months as a teen in East Berlin to buy a pair of shiny white patent leather boots and how powerful she f