The moderately and (very) immoderately priced goods that I’d rather spend it on this month.

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I didn’t grow up wearing Bean boots. Unlike many of my fellow east coasters, I can’t claim them as a staple of my childhood (or adolescence). But, they were a lifelong go-to of my mother’s. So, when the time came for me to leave for college, and trade in the streets of my native Brooklyn for the corn fields of rural Ohio, she saw to it that I departed with a pair of Bean boots in tow (the Gore-Tex / Thinuslate model at that – she’s a good mom). That was in December of 1999 (I matriculated in the fall of 2000). And I am only now, after over a decade of regular wear (literally seven days a week for six to nine months a year), finally replacing that very first pair

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