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Shoe repair once supported a large network of skilled cobblers, but cheap mass-produced footwear has —reducedreducereducingreduction the trade to a handful of specialists. Those who remain often —possesspossessedpossessingpossession decades of experience, resoling boots that customers refuse to —discarddiscardeddiscardingdiscardable. Craft groups now campaign to keep the skill from —dyingdyeingdieddie out entirely.