100% perfect

Haruki Murakami: On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning:

"Yesterday on the street I passed the 100% perfect girl," I tell someone.

"Yeah?" he says. "Good-looking?"

"Not really."

I still haven't finished reading Murakami's latest novel, but he's a favorite author, and this is a favorite short story.

18 months

 
 
The couch is no more and the baby won't sit still anyway.