Liz Thomas, a 27-year-old professional hiker, says she used to have to replace her socks every 10 days.
Austin, now 16, helps his 46-year-old mom put on her socks and shoes.
Then, in some trick of the light, or because she sagged her chin into her wrinkling neck, or her too short trousers rode up above her ankle socks as she was sitting cross-legged, Ally saw for a moment the old woman she would become, vulnerable and stubborn, cut adrift.
Sophie's name, the sound of it in Raisele's mouth, her name said by someone who had seen her, seen her laughing and chasing the chickens, seen her in her flannel nightgown and thick socks, braids one up, one down, seen her running in the yard, ducking Lev Pin-sky's dry red paw.
She finally got the chance in 1993 when she started selling a line of socks with her name on it.
"She's the only one on the team with long socks, " her mom said.
She swiftly draws an invisible line around each calf with a lipstick-sized tube and hikes up the thick white socks slumped around her ankles.
Using socks to swipe sand from her feet, she sensed nothing of her toes.
Presto -- the heavy socks defy gravity by clinging to her legs midway between ankle and knee.
Dressed in a flannel nightgown, socks and a down jacket, her body was found floating about a mile from the yacht, according to police reports.
Another way I remember and honor my daughter is with a tattoo that I had placed on my leg, which among other things reminds me of her each day as I put on my socks.
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"I know of a woman who discovered that her husband was being unfaithful because she realised that someone was darning his socks, " is the current "quote of the week".
Soon after showing up for her first group ride, Page Williams was informed that she was wearing wrong-colored socks, wrong-colored jacket and non-cycling sunglasses.
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" Her anonymous colleague puts it more strongly: "She wants to knock everyone's socks off.
And out of her peeling, greenish doorways could come women in furs, or pink hair-curlers, or orange-striped socks.
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