The Precious Gift of Child’s Play
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3 min readMay 11, 2020
When I was a young child, a huge old willow tree toppled into our back yard from the neighbor’s yard behind us. It fell as the result of a hurricane that hit the East Coast in the 1950's.
The dense branches of the tree missed our house by mere inches. The entire back yard was a tangle of thick, green willow.