Broken Slippers

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Deborah Sue Crews. Broken Slippers

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

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I still don’t understand why my mother brought me with her on that trip to the city. My life could not, under any circumstances, be worse. I believe that the trip was Mother’s attempt at making it up to me for moving us out to the country and forcing me to attend a new school this fall. Seventh grade is hard enough to start when you have grown up with your classmates, but it is even harder to start when you barely know anyone.

I liked the city. I don’t know why she thought a move to the country would change anything. In New York City there was so much to do and see, not like the country where everything was so quiet and still. Guaranteed: no shopping malls, no amusement parks and especially no dance theater. Mom believed that somehow she could bring back a part of me that I had lost after the accident.

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Mother walked toward the old man, extending her hand out as a friendly gesture and quickly said, “My name is Lisa Miller, and this is my daughter, Jenny Miller.”

I jumped into the conversation and said, “I saw a light from outside and came in to find it.”

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