“And then she asked me to come with her to a room, the one full of clothes, like a ragpicker’s room, and she dug in the mountains of clothes until she reemerged, victorious, with a black leather coat and she said: “ ‘This coat is for you, it’s been waiting for you all this time, since its previous owner died.’ “And I took the coat and tried it on and in fact it fit as if it had been made for me.”
