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Re-order Paragraphs

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Re-order Paragraphs

Arrange the sentences into the correct order.

Put the sentences in the correct order:

  1. As a result, some shoe repair shops that once seemed destined to close are now reporting more business than they have seen in decades.
  2. In recent years, rising concern about textile waste has brought a new generation of customers back to the cobbler's counter.
  3. These craftsmen learned to resole and restitch footwear that customers valued enough to fix rather than discard.
  4. Yet a smaller circle of cobblers survived by shifting their focus to the leather boots and dress shoes that still merited repair.
  5. When rubber-soled sneakers began dominating footwear sales in the late twentieth century, many assumed the shoe repair trade would vanish entirely.