The Old Farmer's Almanac 2016 by Old Farmer’s Almanac

Author:Old Farmer’s Almanac
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: OFA
Published: 2015-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

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SOLE MATES

THEN . . .

In the 2nd century A.D., Greek writer and philosopher Plutarch related in his biographical Lives the story of a Roman who, in response to friends who demanded to know why he had divorced his wife without apparent cause, says, “No one of you can tell me where [my shoe] pinches my foot.”

NOW . . .

At Kentucky's Murray State University, if two students fall in love and then marry, each nails a shoe to the “shoe tree” outside Pogue Library. They often return to nail a baby shoe to the tree, which has become little more than a tall stump.

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