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A smiling handyman repairs a pink anatomical heart with gears and a screwdriver beside a blueprint titled A BETTER YOU.

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The Fixer-Upper

The person you are repairing and the repair you love more.

Figure
The person you are fixing. Or being fixed.
Pattern
Loving the repair more than the person.
What it protects
A project cannot leave before it is finished.
What it costs
It is never finished. That is the design.
The move
Name one thing about them you would keep as is.
ON FILE
A punch list longer than the blueprint.

In each position

  1. HOW IT STARTED

    You found someone with a problem. You liked the problem. You moved in to fix it.

  2. HOW IT'S GOING

    You are halfway through the renovation. You have started to resent the house.

  3. HOW IT ENDS, ALLEGEDLY

    You will say you gave them everything. You gave them a punch list.

Three questions

  1. What about them would you keep as is?
  2. What happens when it is finished?
  3. Who is the project here?

A sample file

A sample file

The file contains one blueprint for a better version of a person and one punch list that is longer than the blueprint. This office has reviewed the progress. The repair is going well and will not be completed, because a completed repair could leave, and the office has it in writing that you call this arrangement commitment. xxx xxxx xxx xxxxxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxxxxx xxx xxx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxx xxxxx xxx xxxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx The office has been renovating its own filing system for six years and calls that the system. The form has a line for one thing about them to be kept exactly as it is, and the line has been left blank. It will never be finished, because finished things are allowed to leave.

EXHIBITS

  1. A. A punch list longer than the blueprint.
  2. B. The calendar, every square marked same.
  3. C. Five flags, four marked year two.

UNDER REVIEWpermits pending

Every file is written for the person who pulled it. This one was written for nobody, so it is the only one you get to read without pulling. One sentence is sealed on every public copy, this one included.

On file in cotton

The shirt

The renovation is going well. The house resents it.

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