She moved into a hotel and paid a member of the New York aristocracy who was long on lineage but short of cash to sponsor her in society.
Last year, the store's owners agreed to outfit Ms. Delzer free of charge after she asked them to sponsor her in exchange for her tagging Kittsona on social media.
She told me that their mothers were sisters, and Loch had sponsored her immigration, in 2001.
But he was the first of a series of usefully connected men who have sponsored her career, first in business and then in politics, and given her a "krysha", the "roof" necessary to succeed in post-Soviet life.
In 1986, after her husband successfully sponsored her, she arrived in Mississauga, Ontario, with their seven-month-old son, hoping they would start fresh.
After childhood appearances in England, Sallé studied with Françoise Prévost, who sponsored her Paris Opéra debut in 1721.
When Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Malawi's life president and her lover of 30 years, turned senile, she sponsored her uncle to act in his place.
In the late 1950s, my mother's sister in California sponsored her so she could move to the United States for a better life for us.
Finally, after two years, Cathy secured a work visa when a hospital in San Antonio, Texas, sponsored her to work as a nurse.
