Since they couldn’t simply deliver the whole care package to Lulu, they had to decide what was most urgent
The coat had arrived first, a few days before Yonatan’s wedding. A designer wool coat, in understated black.
“We should cut these buttons off, the ones here at the top,” Raizele suggested. “They’re too shiny, they’re a dead giveaway that it’s a new coat.”
Racheli thought differently. “It would be shame to tear them off. Let’s see if we can just make them look a little duller. Do you have some steel wool? That should take care of it.”
Raizele brought a tuft of steel wool from the kitchen and handed it to her sister. Racheli attacked the buttons enthusiastically.
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