My family had taught me to eat everything on my plate, especially at a restaurant, where food is more expensive, and so whenever the shoemaker took me out I dutifully ate every bite. But the shoemaker had a different way of thinking. She thought that if you were providing someone with dinner, the only way to tell if they were satisfied was if there was food left on their plate, because it meant you knew for sure they were no longer hungry. So when I ate everything on my plate, she would summon the waiter and order another dish, as was her tradition, and as was my tradition, I would eat every
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