LOVE FAVORS THE BRAVE (August 26, 2014)

Thus a huge sign in black lettering on the chest of a gray T-shirt worn by an enormous woman I just spotted in the center of Zagreb. She was waiting for a tram or a bus. Mesmerized, I stopped and turned around several times to see her better, for I could not believe my eyes. In her late fifties or early sixties, she towered above everyone in sight. Endowed with gigantic breasts, a huge barrel-like belly, and thick legs looking like columns, she was simply majestic. In fact, she looked rather like a marble temple of old. There could hardly be a match for her in the Croatian capital. Or anywhere else, for that matter. It would be hard to imagine anyone so brave to approach her, let alone to entice her love. Whence the T-shirt, no doubt. God only knows where she got it, or who got it for her and under what peculiar circumstances, but it fits her perfectly. As far as T-shirts go, at least, she has surely found her match.