Kicker - Reunited with rollerblades

PAUL BUTLER, HOST: A Canadian woman was moved almost to tears when she bought a pair of used roller skates recently.

There was nothing remarkable about the beige skates with red wheels. But when Renee Forrestall realized who these skates once belonged to, she couldn’t believe her eyes.

The 59-year-old Forrestall hadn’t skated in years, but she thought it would be a good way to get some exercise and she found an old pair of skates listed in an online classified.

And when she tried them on, they fit like a glove or like a slipper.

FORRESTALL: It was like a Cinderella slipper moment. It was very strange. It was like - a perfect fit! I couldn’t believe it, and they felt good.

She told CBC Radio Canada that the skates fit SO well because of who they had belonged to … 40 years earlier.

FORRESTALL: I flipped back the tongue, and there’s my name. And I was like … what? I couldn’t even believe it. I thought, this is me! These were mine!

She said the skates were dusty but still in great shape. They don’t make ‘em like they used to!

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