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Shoes from Heaven
Urban legend: Shoes on wiresPhoto credit Walking home from a miserable day at school, Stanley is startled by a pair of shoes that seems to fall from the sky. This random event sets off a chain of events that changes many lives. -
Broken Promise
Elya Yelnats left Latvia without taking Madame Zeroni up a mountain to drink from a special stream. As a result, she cursed him. Leaving sets off a whole series of events that the Yelnats family is still dealing with. Even though this happened a long time before the shoes hit Stanley, it is what gets the 'old' story line going. According to wikipedia, a curse is "an expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will...attach to...one or more persons..."
