Naleighna Kai's Literary Cafe Magazine NK Literary Cafe Magazine - April 2018 Issue | Page 38

I remember being 4 or 5 in Arkansas, and putting on those new black patent
leather shoes. I loved how the click-clicking of the little shoes on the wooden
floor of the church sounded almost like tap dancing shoes. Then I remember be-
ing about 6 in Chicago and begging to go to church with no coat on in 40 de-
gree weather. (‘Cause how could I show off my new dress if I had a stupid coat
covering it up?)
--Janice Pernell, author of No Right Way to do a Wrong Thing.
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