Nick and Amy have been married for seventeen years and for most of those years Nick has owned the same two pairs of dress shoes; one brown pair, one black pair, nearly identical for work, weddings, and any social mixers that required dress pants.  But the sole on one pair has worn clean through, and the heel of the other pair flaps wildly with each step Nick takes though he has glued it too many times to count.  Amy, sensing an opportunity to launch her husband into more current fashion, is quick to toss his outdated shoes into the trash and schedule a date night.  Dinner and drinks first, before a trip to the department store, she thinks is the best way to loosen up Nick and his purse strings.

“Stella, honey,” Amy calls over her shoulder to her sixteen-year-old daughter as sh...

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