This, this is my story. But it is also the story of so many others: Eddy, Emerald, Georgie and more. You should read my story in its entirety, Jane Langton has detailed it so excitingly in the book pictured below.

They had great hearts and protected me from danger so, in return, when need arose I returned the favour. Much showed on my leaves, so many stories, so many lives, so many cultures, theirs was just one story but an important one. I admire a good story as I should when so many combine to make up the whole.

After that man left the place I was growing I helped the town and did much good. Things were never the same but that is good as things should never stay the same.