“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
“And the boy loved the tree… very much.”
“Well an old stump is good for sitting and resting. Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest.”
The tree in the public garden is no longer.
I asked Gabriel why?
”It died. But the stump is here.”
Gabriel played beside the tree. I sat in disbelief… something so beautiful and old, watching children for years, is gone.
Quotes from, The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein.
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