In Jennifer Egan’s essay Reading Lucy, she was very passionate about reading Lucy Kolkin’s life and her letters to here husband. Egan made a seft-to-self connections with Lucy because she considered Lucy and herself as “Brooklynites”. Lucy’s letters telling her husband Alfred about different stuff happening in her everyday life fulfilled Egan’s interest in learning about battleships and working in a Brooklyn Navy Yard. From reading Egan’s essay I learned that Lucy was a very passionate women who was wildly in love with her husband which would be conveyed in her various letters to him while he was stationed in different areas throughout his duties in World War II. Egan’s relationship with Lucy began when she started reading her letters starting from April to September 1944. Lucy letters began with her lecture notes from navy yard shipfiiting school, she wrote down and defined different acronyms. Continuing her research which initially was suppose to be on working in Brooklyn navy yards, Egan fell deep into the letter of this extraordinary women. Egan tells use about one letter where Lucy’s pink lipstick from kissing the paper was still visible even a sixty-two years. We would go on to learn that Lucy was a 3/c ( third class ) shipfitter soon to be 2/c. Lucy had time where she would tell Alfred humorous stories about her day and times when she had spent time with her girlfriends. She complained about sore feet and mentioned her covering of shifts and the processes she had to go through. She told Alfred about her dream of a having a baby and starting a family. Lucy and Alfred did have their problems when it came to being able to see each other but they worked it out eventually. Egan tells us she Google searched Lucy only to find out she did at seventy-eight and her husband out lived her. Jennifer Egan’s connection with Lucy turned out to be more than just a research on navy yard’s but an amazing experience.