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To: Rambi who wrote (10575)	5/13/1998 2:09:00 PM
From: DScottD	Respond to of 71178

I'm sure glad I wasn't told this before we had kids. #reply-4441936

To: Rambi who wrote (10575)	5/13/1998 2:38:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

"...where's my personally autographed Imelda Marcos shoe????" Oh my dear...well...I'm afraid that's a long story. You see, that's the left shoe (a very nice Ferragamo, might I add, albeit with the lining damaged by excessive applications of Tinactin). The right one is in the National Museum of the Philippines, encased in a theftproof plexiglass case under armed guard, and is displayed to the minions there as a reminder of the woeful excesses of the Marcos years. Well. It turns out that the rare shoe broker you transacted with was a notorious Marcos crony, dealing in ill-gotten footwear, upon which the Philippine Government has a claim. They obtained an injunction (I have it right here, see? "In Re Ferragamo..."), U.S. marshalls stormed in yesterday and took possession of the shoe, and it is as we speak winging its way back to Manila on a government chartered aircraft, soon to take its rightful place next to its tinea pedis afflicted mate. Luckily, no one seems to have asked about Pol Pot's Reeboks or Winnie Mandela's Birkenstocks, and Milosevich's shower clogs don't seem to have gotten the attention of the Department of State. Saddam's golf shoes did get some scrutiny, as did Mao Tse Tung's kicker boots, but I fobbed them off by claiming they were mine. So, your collection of "shoes of the infamous" remains largely intact. I think the idea of opening up the little museum is a capital idea. Maybe we can buy more IPIC and average down?