"I haven't owned a pair of blue shoes since high school."
Next she pulled from the bag a pair of dressy blue shoes with a substantial heel.
She went to the kitchen, found the little blue shoe on the counter, put it in her pocket, and walked back outside.
After a few hours she went to get the little blue shoe, which was now in an empty sugar bowl on the kitchen table.
She went and got the blue shoe from the kitchen, and pressed it into Daniel's hand.
Yet she also found herself wishing she hadn't given Daniel the blue shoe.
He hugged Mattie and slid the little blue shoe into her hand.
At root, the decision "red shoes or blue shoes with this dress?"
The child with the ball had a doll, too, now, a small wooden copy of herself, down to the blue shoes.
The bottom sole of a white and blue running shoe faced upwards, as if someone had taken a shallow dive into the black earth.