-- it would show you the two youngsters were meant to be; only they didn't quite know it yet.

-- once fell from the top branch and broke her leg, and he carried her the three miles home. The tree was theirs, and they both had grown attached to it. The tree had been a part of their families’ lives for generations, and if you could pull back its bark to see all it had witnessed,
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-- girl lay with her head in his lap, reading him a book. The sound of rustling leaves and the chirping of birds is the song of nature. This was their tree since they were kids. Where they played hide and seek, where she +