grizzletoad1 
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Registration Date: 08-21-2013
Posts: 263
Location: New Jersey
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There's a great television comedy called Ghost, based on a UK show of the same name. It centers on a group of spirits that haunt an old mansion somewhere in Upstate New York, who can only be seen by one of the owners after she has a near fatal fall that allows her to see them. Her Husband can't, nor can anyone else that comes to their home, which they've turned into a B&B. There is one recurring character in the show that could have been ripe to have been written as a one-shoed spirit. This character (Stephanie) was a prom queen who was murdered by a chain saw maniac in the 1980's and is condemned to stay on property for all eternity. Now don't get upset. It's done in very comical fashion in a nod to those 1980's slasher flicks. Anyway, this character only shows up once or twice a year and spends most of her time sleeping in the attic. She's dressed in a short, blue prom dress and white pumps. The missed opportunity is that she could have lost one of those pumps when she was running from her attacker, and spends the rest of her time having to negotiate her purgatory in one heel. Her other heel's "spirit" lays out in the courtyard where she lost it, but she can never put it back on. Every time she dips her foot into it, it just swipes through it. The shoe would be invisible to everyone, like all the other regular ghosts in the show, but the main "living" character (Sam) would be able to see it sitting forlornly in the middle of her property's courtyard marking the point where Stephanie met her grizzly end. She's one of those 1980's bad girls, always stirring up trouble, so her one-shoed condition could be part of her punishment, a "Cinderella" who will never have a Prince Charming put her white "glass" slipper back on. Sadly that is not the case. A missed opportunity if you ask me. Opinions anyone?
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