 Estela Canto and Jorge Luis Borges met in 1944. Estela was an intelligent, educated, beautiful and disturbing woman. She worked as a radio broadcaster, as an English translator and wanted to become a writer. Borges was shy, very attached to his mom and the employee of a modest Public Library. He was still unknown to the public. They began a very special relationship. A liberated woman, precursor of feminism and a timid man who asked his mom permission to go out and invite Estela to go for walks in San Telmo or Parque Lezama where they reflected upon life. They experienced amorous episodes, doubts, questioning of their friends, intrigues, pain. They mixed with the artists and poets of that time. They fell in love or at least Borges did. Meanwhile his mom and sister opposed this relationship. The relationship lasted five years till Estela abandoned Borges. Borges became a wreck and it took him a long time to overcome the break-up. All alone, he dedicated himself to writing and giving lectures. A Canadian visitor to the French capital would like very much to find a girlfriend but he is timid on the one hand and he has only a married couple of friends there on the other. The husband advises him to resort to the "umbrella trick", a strategy that can be applied only in the rain. The tactics works as follows : the young man offers to lend his umbrella to a young lady who has none, the girl asks him his address to take it back to him and it s in the pocket! This is easier said than done though, and it will take the Canadian a dozen unfruitful attempts before he does find his soul mate.