For most of its life it stood at the center of a Provençal farmhouse kitchen, where the whole household gathered around it to eat. It was found in Béziers, a late 19th-century farm table out of a bastide in the Luberon, with two deep drawers and small painted ceramic knobs, since cut down to coffee table height. Tables like it were often the only real piece of furniture in the room, and the drawers held the day's bread and the everyday knives so nothing had to be carried in from elsewhere. Sylvie set it low in front of the sofa, where the drawers now keep the things that used to pile up on top, the matches and the candles and the cards no one finishes playing.
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