Just as I thought that both the tree and I were going to fall, a hand touched me.

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I tried to make myself small in the tree, as the branches rubbed against me.

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Then I put my foot on the tree and pulled myself up into it.

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I walked outside to the edge of the garden, toward the tree.

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I am as last years leaf that sticks to the tree.

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I chopped down the cherry tree." Is the story true?

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I wanted to get down from that tree quickly.

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It was wonderfulhaving her home. Every day we'd take a walk, and I'd jabber onlike a monkey in a tree, and she'd listen aboutPing-Ponging and shrimping and Mama makinga trip up to heaven.

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