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>Hello, Mike, that is lovely to hear. Our children have >been barefoot constantly since the first mild days of >spring, this winter they even seemed to have kept >their tough and leathery soles from last year. We >packed away their shoes and socks and who knows when >they next remember them, they might already be grown >out of them. I couldn't imagine them in shoes at this >point, it's so much part of what they are! > >On warmer days we occasionally see others barefoot, >which is always an excitement and the children quickly >make friends. Others give us looks as if they would >love to go barefoot but don't dare ... we try to be >encouraging. When we're in town together I wear flat >minimal sandals while all the children go totally bare >everywhere and yes, it's lovely how their toes wiggle >and splay, the top of their feet getting sun tanned >while their blackened solepads contrast against pale >arches. That's what a healthy city child/teen's feet >should like!

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