More and more people had been walking beneath the spruce tree ever since she got her lower branches cut. It bothered her. Other perennials in the area tried to be encouraging, telling her that the trim simply made her, in a very literal way, much easier to approach. And to be fair, the tree did find herself listening to the people talk as they passed, hearing them speak with delight about how nice it was, now that spring had arrived and homeowners had begun maintaining their landscaping in earnest, to be able to enjoy all the greenery around them. The spruce tree merely wished that she could remind these people that she was the same tree that had been rooted there for people's enjoyment for years, just with a new cut, and that she was as green as she had ever been, which only made sense, as she was an evergreen. But the people continued to walk by and comment on all the lovely things they had never seen before, and the tree, being a tree, said nothing.
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