The Fallen Apple Tree

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This is Fruitycake. There are many trees on our land here in this Italy place.

The maps say we have olive trees and “stone fruit” trees.

But because the land has levels, the persons call them terraces, and we are on a mountain, it’s very dangerous to just go exploring when you can’t see if something like land is beneath your feet and not just weeds. So we really don’t know our property very well yet at all.

There is however, one tree right by our house. It has not been looking the best. It is bent over. And has many branches that don’t look well.

But we trimmed some of the branches, well, Boy Person did. And we thought it would be ok. But yesterday, some more of the branches fell by themselves. And we were sad. We don’t know if its going to be ok. But, we were surprised when we saw apples on those fallen branches! Apples! It was an apple tree. We would have guessed that. Fruit is in my name, so I should be an expert on that.

We were so excited. An apple tree!! But now, we are worried. Because we don’t know if it will live.

We don’t know if it will be ok. Isn’t life strange? Sometimes, caring for someone or something brings a hurt to our heart when we love it. Sometimes, love does hurt.

But also, from hurt many times comes regrowth. Hurt doesn’t have to limit our capacity to love again unless we let it. But time may be what is needed to get it started again.