Ordinary Day

Re the market boy and the books -- he sounds like my ex, who was a library director and saw absolutely no reason to buy books with his own money. When I left him, I had two very small boxes of books. I now (eighteen years later) have mostly full bookcases in every room of my condo except one of the two bathrooms (the other bathroom is combined with the laundry room off the kitchen and has a bookshelf with my cookbooks in it), for a total of five bookcases, the largest of which is 8 feet wide and tall.