Clothes encounter

“These shoes were kind of expensive. I bought them seven years ago when I had first come to this country.… I didn’t know how to wait for things to go on sale then. I like that about [America]. I can always find a big, big deal if I wait.”

—Esther Liu, a 50-year-old Chinese teacher at Harold Washington College who lives in Evanston

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