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Your Feet Will Swell to a Size Greater Than Any Shoes Can Handle

Heat and water retention are a dangerous combination, and your body will swell to comic proportions (made worse by the fact that the Summer calls for lots of open-toed shoes that leave nothing to the imagination).

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