Last night after his shower he asked if we could go to the junkyard. “Why?” I said. “So we can see the kitchen boom box.” (He’s had four boom boxes so far. I threw away the one in the kitchen. It didn’t work.) “Did you throw away the kitchen boom box?” “Uh-huh.” “We can see [...]
My son has gone through three boom boxes so far. He draws boom boxes (thousands of them), on butcher paper with markers, outside on the driveway with chalk. He decorates them. He carries them around the house, pushing over piles of whatever to make room for them. He drops boom boxes. He dings them, bends [...]
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