“She said she once won a prize for selling the most Girl Scout cookies,” said Zero. “She was real proud of that.”
Stanley peeled off another layer of his onion. “We always took what we needed,” Zero said.
“When I was little, I didn’t even know it was stealing. I don’t remember when I found out.
But we just took what we needed, never more. So when I saw the shoes on display in the shelter, I just reached in the glass case and took them.”
“Clyde Livingston’s shoes?” asked Stanley. “I didn’t know they were his. I just thought they were somebody’s old shoes.
It was better to take someone’s old shoes, I thought, than steal a pair of new ones.
I didn’t know they were famous. There was a sign, but of course I couldn’t read it.
Then, the next thing I know everybody’s making this big deal about how the shoes are missing.
It was kind of funny, in a way. The whole place is going crazy.
There I was, wearing the shoes, and everyone’s running around saying, ‘What happened to the shoes?’
‘The shoes are gone!’ I just walked out the door. No one noticed me.
When I got outside, I ran around the corner and immediately took off the shoes.
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