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I’d have to go backpacking with my flip flops. Tugging off hiking boots at the end of a long, hot day only to stuff my feet into the criss cross straps of my flip flops, my feet exposed to the detritus of the natural world and possibly biting insects, was not ideal.

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In 2008, I bought another pair. They were baby blue. These were the Crocs I left behind in Alaska during my trip to the southwest.

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I called one shoe store. No Crocs. Another the same. Five shoe stores later, I felt discouraged. Finally, I called a sports store that sold Crocs. When I showed up, they only had three colors baby pink, camouflage and black.

Nothing against wearing baby colors or making your feet invisible, but I chose black. Perhaps this was a fitting tribute to the standard uniform of Manhattanites, where I’d met my first Crocs. Or a nod to the flip flops I’d left behind, also black.

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