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July 9th

Straight to Work

I wasn’t expected to do anything other than rest my first day. Instead, I joined a boy named Julius on the well-worn wooden porch bench. Julius was busy with a thin stick applying strong smelling rubber cement from a coffee can to a printed and die cut piece of cardboard. He said he was making bags for tea.

I asked, “Can you teach me how to make these boxes?”

Looking up from his work with a smile and a nod, he appreciated the gentle hint, and agreed to show me. Applying the glue to the cardboard, he taught me to wait until it dried to the right consistency before folding in the edges and forming the box. We then pressed doubly on the glued portion to ensure a good seal. Before stacking the the finished product, I rubbed away the external dried glue to keep one box from sticking to the next. It didn’t take long before we had our rhythm down while working in tandem.

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