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summarize the "The Red Fox Fur Coat" by Teolinda Gersão in 4 sentences

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In "The Red Fox Fur Coat," Teolinda Gersão follows a woman's fraught relationship with a luxurious red fox fur coat that becomes the focal point for desire, social aspiration, and memory. The coat changes how she is perceived by others and how she perceives herself, prompting flashbacks and revealing tensions between surface glamour and inner vulnerability. As she negotiates shifting relationships and the costs of maintaining appearances, the garment functions as a mirror for identity, aging, and the compromises of respectability. Gersão's spare, elegiac prose probes how material objects accumulate emotional histories and expose the precariousness of selfhood within a stratified society.