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A nursery game called

Hunt-the-Slipper. A flower called

Lady-Slipper. Running in the

Gold Cup a horse called Slipper.

Drinking champagne out of

her Red Slipper. From these

magic sources the development

of the word Slipper in my mind

so that it becomes the word internal

and therefore as such a part of

me as my eyes or feet.

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