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Sixteenth Street Living Room Bookcase |
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The hearth wasn’t our only designated backdrop, though;
we may have posed even more family portraits in front
of the living room bookcase.
When Shirley Bogh remodelled the house, he built this handsome set of shelves into the northern wall of the front section of the L-shaped room, opposite Pappy’s “declining chair” and behind Mammy’s Studying Chair.1 I’d have put this with the other material on our cats, except that it’s also the best shot we have of the bookcase. And of an interpersonal/interspecies treasure of this era. My best friend and treasured furry companion, Pinky the Wuss, appears here in front of the bookcase, greeting me on my return from school, leaping from the back of Mammy’s Studying Chair to land kerthump upon my ample bosom and lick the salt off my sweaty neck. Mammy remains, of course, unfazed. |
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