There’s a pair of orange socks that started all of this.
Made by hand by a grandmother in the Himalayan foothills of Uttarakhand. Worn by her daughter, then passed forward. They fit perfectly. They were soft in a way that shop-bought socks never are. And they carried a warmth that had nothing to do with the wool.
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