After seeing a woman on the street who bore an extremely strong resemblance to Xavier Cugat�s wife Charo and was tottering in the very same six inch white Goody Two Shoes that I paid the outrageous sum of forty-two dollars for, I think I might have to seriously rethink shoes. What happened in terms of my feet was that about two years ago I discovered I could be miraculously elevated a half foot off the ground with the aid of grotesquely divine platform shoes and it changed my life. For one who was always considered �petite� (a really dreadful word if you are) it was a perhaps superficial, yet nonetheless pleasurable feeling of power to tower over normal sized human beings. It also brought a great deal of pain into my life.