But they also have higher-end designs, many in a Mary Jane style that is adjustable yet attractive, and several have chunky but high-enough heels, in metallic or pearlized leather.

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Kounin went back over the videotape and noticed that forty-five seconds before Mary whispered to Jane, Lucy and John had started whispering.

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With a lot of patient craft, the co-directors of this frisky yet semi-tragic 1995 documentary, Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher, record the final months that Russel and Mary Jane Jordan spent on the Iowa farm that by 1990 had been in the family for almost a hundred and twenty-five years.

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