April 23, 2003

• Oh, and by the way. The apple tree in my picture to the left? It’s gone. Well, not gone. A stump and a pile of wood remain, but my picture is all that’s left of its former self.
  
  This happened a few months ago, just after I moved out. P, my then-soon-to-be-ex-housemate, was going to start attacking it, and was assembling the tools. I told him I really liked that tree, and he said, with the kind of sly smile only P. can manage, “I’ll wait until you’re gone before I cut it down, then.”
  
  It had gotten very sick, and removing it was part of a larger endeavor to unclutter the back yard, so it wasn’t as though he cut it down at random.

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