Around the office, one of our favorite pieces to have published is ” The Giving Tree : A Symposium ,” in which we asked various contributors to comment on Shel Silverstein’s story. It appears that someone else has a retelling of the story , one in which the tree is not quite as forgiving as he seemed at first.
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