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Getting My Dream Coat

From We Were Not Spoiled, the memoir of Lucille Verreault Ledoux as told to Denis Ledoux. Lucille Verreault Ledoux Summer of 1945 My mother-in-law had a lovely black Persian lamb coat. It had large buttons that were very fashionable at the time. That coat was heavy and warm, and Mrs. Ledoux wore it everywhere.  She looked good in it. Rhéa had a raccoon coat that also looked good on her—we used to say comme il faut which means “the way it should be”. The two of them really looked comme il faut when they went out–especially together. In those days, a lot of

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