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I totally forgot that my Girl Shoes have a heel on them. And I would really like to avoid having my supposed-to-be-floor-length dress look TOO short, so that will not work.

QUEST: to find a black flat shoe in my size that does not look ugly and/or orthopedic. I don't think I can get away with anything "unisex" -- not if it's going with a bright red satin dress.

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Thank you, Google Books!

I really didn't want to Interlibrary Loan that book on women workers in Japanese silk factories at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century, which I needed to touch up my research at a place I was rewriting.

(Actually -- I probably should buy it, shouldn't I? Or else the Japanese books I was using for research and which I may or may not be able to find again...)