I talk To The Trees

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Humbleoats_small A story about many things that can happen on a farm in Maine.

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A story about many things that can happen on a farm in Maine.

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One day when I was 10 or so years younger than I am today, a young man was eating breakfast at my house as I put on a friendly old red coat --- getting ready to run a cord of fir through my wood splitter. I turned to The Almost Perfect Woman and said, "This won't take long. Eric is going to help me." I was trying to be funny, because if you know anything about the young men who follow your daughters home from college, you know that they are about as useful as snow shoes on a lobster boat. Yes, they might be studying engineering on full fellowships. Yes, next year when they graduate their starting salaries will be more than you've earned since those golden Bill Clinton years. But their idea of being useful is to destroy your home life by buying your daughter a fish, complete with leaking tank --- or a dog. And you know who ends up taking care of that. So I was surprised when this young...
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