A Sad Realization
Kenny told his dad that he thought their prized tree was gone. As much as Lucas had tried to look after it, it had been withering away during the past year.
Lucas and his brother Larry had grown up with this tree, and the family generations before that had grown up with this tree. Lucas tried to ready himself for what he had to do, but he wasn’t sure if he could do it. He thought of what his brother, who moved upstate, would think.