Shopping for clothes was a difficult task for Lucia, as she had been born blind. She loved the different textures of the fabrics, but she could not see them. When she was a child she would walk into her mother's closet and touch all the clothes she had. She knew how to differentiate silk and fake silk, she would spend hours caressing wool, velvet, satin, leather. Every time they went to a shop they would spend hours in it, as Lucia insisted on her mother to describe each and every piece of clothing. Her mother described her the cut, as she ran her hands through it. Lucia was specially fascinated by colors and patterns, she had never sen them, and it was unlikely she would ever do, but inside her head she imagined everything. She had memorized which colors went well with which others like a mantra.
As the result of her obsession, her style was always impeccable, to the point that people were surprised to learn she was the one who picked her own clothes. To Lucia that was a victory, a way to show the world that disability wouldn't stop her.
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