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A Tree Falls

A Tree Falls

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Alexander Riley
Jun 10, 2022
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I had a tree cut down. 

It had long towered over our house, at the side on which all the bedrooms are situated. 

On starless winter nights, the wind would roar like a host of demons from the west, and the massive tree would move and bend and shake in the darkness. And I would lie awake and think of my children sleeping in those rooms, below the menacingl…

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