Baby Shoes

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A Whole Life in 6 Words

“As the story goes, Hemingway was once challenged in a bar bet, where all good stories start: Could he write a whole novel in just six words? And he wrote . . . ‘For sale: baby shoes, never worn.’”

—Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser, Smith magazine, on “Can You Tell Your Life Story in Exactly Six Words?” Talk of the Nation, NPR, 2010

• Editorial Comment: What color?

PeezPix by Ted Pease 

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