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The idea or rather the sign came to my thoughts spontaneously when I was reading setareh’s comment on my blog “My balcony garden” before finishing the post, I found that our stories are enormously similar. In other words, she inspired me! So I told myself why not share mine here.. Really I'm sorry for your fig tree, by the way me too, I missed a tree like you do, I have the same souvenir but it concerns
a grapefruit tree.

When I was approximately 5 years old we had a grapefruit sapling in our small garden, then one day, my father did not take me with him when he went out I don’t remember for what exactly, could be a travel
or something else. The most important thing was my reaction, I reacted badly..Can you imagine what evil in me did when my father left?  Yes..I became crazy..I was flying into a temper.. My guts told me that my father hated me.. I was sad.. I was too bad I started looking for something that could be cathartic because I thought that just crying would not make me feel better..

I had no idea about what I would do but at that moment It would be so satisfying to cut clothes or carpet for example because I had the experience to have done that before, I had to hit back at something. I wasn’t a kid nor a child I saw myself as a fighter so I took the scissors and rushed straight to garden.

The first thing in my field of vision was the grapefruit sapling and I said “I found it !” I cut the roots of one of the trees and planted it back as if nothing had happened lol.. It was done ..

A few days later, my mom who took care of the garden asked me “Was  it you who did it?” I understood that I was in a big problem and without hesitation I answered “yes”. Regarding me, the difficulty was how to justify myself  because the next question automatically had to be “ why?” It was my everlasting concern, I told you that I was experienced in the same situations because that “ why” could cost me many different forms of punishment.

What was particularly helpful for me at the moment? The new question form. Because I was familiar with such as “why did u do that?” But, I felt at ease when my dad asked me “Why did you cut only one?” I felt he gave me a chance, a card to play! I answered “Because I like grapefruits so much”, and then he asked again “But why did you cut one sapling if you like grapefruits so much?” Emm.. I was obliged to remind him, so I said “But we have another one dad”, then he said “But now we have only one”.

With time, I realized that it was my responsibility to save the only one grapefruit tree in our garden, and that was what I was doing for many years, I remember the time when it grew into a big tree with lots of delicious grapefruits.

But unfortunately we moved away from that house to another town and I don’t know
what has happened to my survivor tree.

Story corrected by Tanya and Danny:
http://www.myenglishclub.com/group/improving-grammar-with-tanya-and-dan

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