Many years ago, a young woman, Anjul Dutt, was visiting her brother, who was in graduate school at Yale. She really wanted to work at Claire’s during her summer visit, but we didn’t have an opening that year. Over the next few summers, she repeated her request. When she appealed to me for a summer job during her brother’s last year at school, I couldn’t resist her determination—she had even called me from Wales, where she had been living at the time. So I h
