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Pff, that's a long story...–I know a fun one, the story about the shoe shop! –Oh, right.

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Sarah was five and the school doctor recommended getting her new shoes.

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They said the feet didn't get the right support.

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Alright, so we went into the street to shop, to that one store, but it was a nice one.

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I didn't feel like it, but the weather was bad so we went in.

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The shoes, they were pretty, but so expensive, Sarah picked those: those I like!

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I said no, first we're going to go to another store that isn't expensive, a more normal store.

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The shoes there she didn't like: no, no I don't want this. So we went back to the other store.

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She tried on the shoes and I went to sit down. In front of me there was a pillar with all kinds of stuff like slippers, umbrellas etcetera.

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She went to walk around a bit, but it took so long: where is she? –You couldn't see me because of the big pillar.

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–Yeah, I couldn't see anything because of that pillar.

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Where is she, I thought and went to look for her, and then I suddenly saw her outside: "mom, buy" while holding one foot up and pointed at it: wet.

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There I was... and yeah, I had no choice but to buy them!

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She only wore them for a year.

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–The salesman was pretty surprised, right?

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I just paid, I was so embarrassed.

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She should have stayed in the store, she knew it was raining and that I had to buy them that way.

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She had the final say.

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But I also knew that if I walked around that pillar she couldn't see me. Unconsciously I knew that she couldn't hear me, and now also not see me.

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If a hearing mother heard me walking away they'd call: hey, come back here, but a deaf mother will just keep waiting and wonder where they are, because they can't see them.

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I was very aware as a child already that everything is based on sight and not on sound, unconsciously conscious really.