But like many people of the day, it was a practice to snip out little mementos of events, and this particular coat suffered that same fate, in that Alfonso Don would clip pieces away from the coat and give it to people who came to visit and to see the coat.

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Imagine if each of us had to grow his own food, make his own clothing or snip out his own appendix.

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