My mom found it by accident in my dad’s drawer. She was too embarrassed to ask him what it was…

us how his father used it every morning before work and every Sunday before church. He said he could still hear the sound of the metal tapping against the wooden floor. He said his father believed a man should take care of his shoes because shoes carried him through life.

It was such a simple thing.

But my father’s eyes were wet when he said it.

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