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Scottish Daily Express
|August 09, 2025
WANDERING out of a supermarket, I caught a conversation between a woman and a small girl. "Are you wearing your beautiful ballerina shoes?" the woman asked.
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"Excuse me," I said, "but is it the ballerina or the shoes that are beautiful?"
"Good question," she replied. "The shoes are beautiful but I am unsure about the ballerina. It seems to me beautiful ballet shoes are more likely to be worn by beautiful ballerinas. Why do you ask?"
This story is from the August 09, 2025 edition of Scottish Daily Express.
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