The Giving Tree

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I used to have my own ‘The giving tree’ in my hometown house. There has been a front yard filled with variety vegetables, flowers and trees in front of my hometown house and a mandarin orchard behind of my hometown house. My hometown house has been surrounded by many various flowers and trees. Among them I liked ‘citrus natsudaidai tree’ most. It used to be at the rear of my hometown house, near the mandarin orchard. It made me be able to do many things with it. It used to be my own swing, it taught me the joy of harvest, and it gave me fresh, sweet-and-sour juice.

My ‘citrus natsudaidai tree’ had been already there, long before I was born. My grandfather planted the seed of the tree about 100 years ago. When I first recognized it, it was already a big tree, it was much taller than the roof of my hometown house. On an early summer day when I might be an 8-year-old girl, my father made a swing on the tree branch with a nylon rope. But the rope was too thin to sit on there, so we decided to utilize a Disney book as a saddle because it was quite hard and thick so we could enjoy riding on the swing comfortably. I and my elder sisters really enjoyed it. We waited in a row being eager for one’s own turn. Riding on the swing with sisters was more attractive and fascinating play because we had to wait to ride it. There is a saying like this, ‘Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.’ That is totally true! If I had ridden on the swing alone, I could have ridden on the swing all I wanted but it would not have been attractive play as much as I would have played with my elder sisters. The swing wasn’t taller, nicer and fancier than the one in the playground but I liked it more. It belonged only to us and when I was riding on the swing I...

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...d, library, fresh fruits and juice. But I can’t see the tree any longer. The tree has been cut down for some reasons by my mom. Some harmful insects had begun to attack the tree but the tree was too high and large for my mom to spray insecticide. The harmful insects had harmed not only the citrus natsudaidai tree own but also many mandarin trees near the citrus natsudaidai tree. Though the citrus natsudaidai tree has disappeared left its bottom part, I still remember the tree. Now I think things the tree has really given to me are happy memories raising me like I am today and a teaching that happiness is in affectionate relationships. I was happy with the tree because I could do all things written above with my family. The tree don’t exist anymore, things the tree gave me exist not only in the past but also present. The tree was, is, always my own ‘The giving tree’.

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