Away we go

"We had an orange tree when we were kids.

My dad was really proud of it. 

He planted it one spring and he used to go out there first thing in the morning see if any oranges had grown.

But nothing ever grew. 

The thing was sickly or something or the soil wasn't right.

One morning my mom woke Grace and me up really early like 5:00 and she led us out to the tree with these 2 grocery bags filled with oranges and pineapples and grapes and melons for some reason.

And we just hung all the fruit from the tree using tape and string. 

It worked actually. And then we all ran into the truck and we slouched down and we just waited for my dad to come out.

- What did he say?

- Well, he stared at it for a full minute, just staring at it. I think at first he thought they were real, like the tree had burst into fruit overnight, and then, I guess he saw the pineapples or something, and he just started laughing harder than we'd ever heard him laugh."

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