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As I feel myself coming together, the grey-haired man with the intense eyes keeps me shaped and pretty. He adds on to me, sanding me carefully, starting starboard and working his way over the bow and taking his time around the port and ending gracefully with the stern. I like the way I am turning out and I hope he will be the one to use me most. I hope he doesn't exploit my perfection by selling me.

I grow slowly, though, because the grey-haired man works carefully and not very often. Sometimes he goes several days without even looking at me and it is then that I wonder if he will return. He always does and is even more careful with me than before. Intermittently, there is a younger man, strong and handsome, with brown hair and deep green eyes that sits on the stairs leading somewhere I have never seen. Occasionally he works on me also, the handsome, young one, and I appreciate his efforts but it is the older one I have come to love.

The younger man has been coming more often and helping less. He drinks a brown substance that the 'Boss', or so he is called, provides him with. They often sit in silence, a silence that makes me curious to what they have experienced together.

Sometimes, the Boss comes down the stairs and just looks and me. I wonder what he's thinking. Sometimes he looks as though he has aged years in just a day since I've seen him, and some days, when he is with the 'DiNozzo', he looks happy.

When I overhear them talking, they talk of me sometimes. My favorite is when the DiNozzo asks about my name. The Boss replies 'The Kelly' and I love this name. He says it with pride and love. This is all I could ask from the Boss.

Other times they talk of friends, the 'Abby' sometimes, or the 'Ducky'. I'm glad he didn't name me after an animal, as he did with the other friend.

But my favorite conversation is when the DiNozzo or even a new visitor I don't know asks how the Boss is going to get me out of his basement.