Chapter 16: On Beauty
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I have needed to take you back in time to show you the sort of love I came from. To show you the sort of love I did and did not get. To help you understand why it was that I did not know how to recognize the love that I had when I had it.
Our marriage lasted 8 years. We were best friends and extremely broke the entire time. At one point, we could only afford one pair of shoes each. I knew my shoes would need to work for every occasion.
Being broke is hard for a lot of serious reasons, but for someone as silly as me, the hardest was never being able to buy beautiful things. I decided to get a little wild about my shoe purchase.