It was hanging on a rack at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass,crammed in with shoddy trench coats and an assortment of sad, woollen overcoats -- a rose among thorns.

• 它就挂在衣架上，夹在劣质的军用风雨衣和各式各样寒酸的羊毛大衣当中，然而它却像荆棘丛中的一朵玫瑰。