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Childhood

Sick Tree

Kellen
K

When I was five my park was Ray Park in Chicago. There were some little trees there; I don't know the kind, but they had trunks with offshoots close to the ground.

Childhood
March 21, 2020

Lightning Strikes!

Daniel
F

I was a young boy, left alone with my older brother on a stormy night while our parents went out for a date.  We were watching TV in the dark living room when suddenly there was a wall-shaking

Childhood
October 16, 2019

Kid Loves Tree

Jamie
R

When I was a little kid I was the youngest of three, and when my brother and sister didn't want to play with me, outside my dad's house was this big maple tree next to our driveway, and I was able

Childhood
December 5, 2018

Swingers of Willows

Nancy
P

I grew up in Lansing, Illinois, a southeastern suburb of Chicago.  When I was two years old, we moved into a pre-World War II house with a double lot that had older, established trees and a pa

Childhood
November 22, 2018

A tree is a playground

Pamela
C

Growing up we had more than one horse chestnut tree around our block on the northwest side of Chicago. As kids, we liked to collect the chestnuts when they fell in their prickly green covers.

Childhood
November 13, 2018

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