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…e landlord had sent two men and they had chopped it down. But the tree hadn’t died… it hadn’t died. A new tree had grown from the stump and its trunk had grown along the ground until it reached a place where there were no wash lines above it. Then it had started to grow towards the sky again.”
 — A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, ch. 56
“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” Has Almost No Plot, and That’s Kind of the Point
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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