Stacey Miller

So I adopted my daughter out of New York City foster care when she was 10 years old.

And when you adopt out of foster care, they don't just give you the kid in an emergency the way they do if you're an emergency foster care parent.

You have a getting to know each other like once every weekend.

So it was my first day I was going to spend with her alone.

And I was nervous.

And it was one of those days in March when there was a snowstorm and the snow was like up to here.

You couldn't walk.

They had just like single aisles on the corners.

It was really wet.

It was really cold.

And she arrived in white cotton sneakers.

And I was like, don't you have any other shoes?

And she was like, no, I don't.

So I was like, I'm going to take her shopping.

And I didn't even know, because I wasn't ready to do that yet, where to go.

So I was like, where do you get shoes?

And she told me Payless.

I was like, we're going to go there.

So we went up to Payless, and I got her galoshes, and we were trying on shoes.

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