SUN SHORTS:..."The Home Office Doorknob"...Life As A Big, Fat Paragraph...

 

By EDUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas |...Joe Ramirez had been the one to install the doorknob to his designated home office.

He'd been the one to drive to the hardware store, the one to walk up and down the aisles until he found the one stashing door-repair stuff, the one who'd walked it to the store's cash register, the one who'd paid for it, the one who'd asked that it be bagged, the one who'd driven it home, the one who'd carried it into the house, the one who'd up and announced to the family his intention to install it, the one who'd done that quickly, the one who'd have the only key, the one who'd straight-up, tersely told everyone, the dog too, that the office was his private space, the one who'd walk in and lock himself in for hours, the one who'd not done any work in there, the one who'd merely plunk himself down and sit in his executive high back chair and sleep...

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