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The Shoes We Leave Outside: A childhood ritual, a traveling saint and the children who need us now

A call to help and donate to mother-child charities helping the displaced

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Dec 06, 2025
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An ancient ceiling fresco from the church of St Nicholas in Demre
Ceiling fresco, Church of St. Nicholas, Demre (ancient Myra), Türkiye. © Adam Jones / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

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When I was a kid, my favorite stops on our drives down south from Cleveland were at my dad’s friend Larry’s house. It was a small, very old farmhouse tucked into the hills that drop toward the Ohio River—quiet, a little ramshackl…

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