You are plagued by a recurring dream of Teresa in August. In your dream, she's wearing silver platform heels and she strides straight across the old board floor in the empty room above her store, her thick calves jutting out from beneath the hem of her Capri's, and you hear the alternating thump-slap, thump-slap of her heels hitting the boards followed by the smacks of her insoles on the sweaty bottoms of her feet. She stops, her feet shoulder-width apart, as if she's waiting for something. Then in a flash, she's back where she started and she strides again, but this time she's moving slower a... Show more