Dear Manolo: Confidence Boosters with Heels

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MY SON GRADUATES from the eighth grade next week at a pricey private school, paid for mostly by my ex, who will be there with his bride, who is 18 years his junior. I would like to avoid it, but my son needs me. Any shoes to make me confident? — Eve

Manolo says, outside of nightmares in which you are forced to take the final exam in quantum physics ("But I majored in English!") while wearing nothing but bunny slippers, encountering the ex and his cheerleader-cum-bride is the most uncomfortable situation imaginable.

On the one of the hands, you wish to crawl under the floorboards and die. On the other of the hands, you wish to cause someone else to die and stash the corpse under the floorboards. On the third of the hands, you know that you must put aside your desire to drive your minivan over his new sports car, so that your son can enjoy his big day. The only way to conduct oneself is to be aloof and above it all with the Platswoon from Stuart Weitzman ($325, Zappos.com).

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