Ginger’s shoes
 
The Fred that filled her shoes with blood
is not the Fred we think we love.
A Fred that we could love like that
would be an easy-going chap,
urbane and funny, tender too.

If Fred did not treat Ginger so,
but let those little missteps go,
we would not love him as we do.

David Callin

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