Rich and Strange Aeons

I find it funny when I learn things from fiction, especially "lower end" fiction, such as when I learned a better way of cutting meat from a webcomic. Or when a yuri manhua introduced me to the idea of rain shoe covers: a girl saw rain, pulled covers out of her purse, put them on, and happily went splashing in the rain. This seemed neat, so I looked it up on Amazon, and found various options: disposable thin plastic that doesn't even cover the top of the shoe, more for indoor than rain use; disposable thin plastic that does go up higher, and might be appropriate for sticking in your bag for emergencies; less disposable rubber things.

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