Magary loved making pizza for the family's dinner, and one night his daughter said she wanted to help. Unfortunately, when she rolled her rolling pin over the dough, it tore, and when she tried to spread the sauce, it got more on the counter than on the pizza. He told himself to let it go and had her put on the cheese. "It wasn't even close," he wrote. "There were slabs of cheese hanging over the sides. The spacing between slices was all uneven. She would jam the cheese into the dough and drag it around, creating holes – HOLES – in the crust. My pizza – my masterpizza – was being ruined in front of my eyes. It was like watching someone put his foot through a Van Gogh."
