Sophie's Journal — June 1953

“June 14, 1953 Joe built a bookshelf. I feel I should record this because it took him three weekends and because he was so pleased with it that he stood in the living room and looked at it for five minutes without moving, the way a man looks at something he has made with his own hands that turned out the way he wanted it to, and I understood the expression because I have seen it before on other faces in other rooms and I will not say whose.”

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