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One year and 6 months into our relationship, you did something that no man has ever accomplished before,
You bought my heart
With a few boards of old, & cheap wood
I watched, as you magically build these boards into masterpieces that your mind could not comprehend
I listened to you angrily lose your patience, and sometimes to my amusement
You are skilled
And amazingly talented
A tailor of wood
You fix broken pieces in ways that you could never fix your broken heart
I watched you toil month after month with this wood until you finally settled on something for me
A bookcase
Rocky and a little unstable you placed two feet on the bottom to keep it from swaying
And then......
you hated it
Offered to buy me a new one
Or make a better one with a more expensive wood
And the only words that kept you from throwing it away were the words that left my mouth in the form of
I love it!
You see for me, this bookcase is more than just a bookcase
It is a symbol of your personal growth, and our real life relationship experience
You took an old & broken down shelf and transformed it into different functional pieces of our home
Planted its feet firmly on the floor, and presented it to me, as if to say, this is my heart, my broken heart, update its features and work on me
Help me to make this better for you
Show me what you would need to accomplish that
Or I can get you a new one, fancier, sturdy and expensive
But I love my old, handmade bookcase just fine
