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Tree Lines - Chapters One through Four

Chapters 1 to 4
Chapters 5 to 8
Chapters 9 to 12
Chapters 13 to 16
Chapters 17 to 20
Chapters 21 to 24
Chapters 25 to 28
Chapters 29 to 32

 

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Chapter 1

Preludes

One by one, the fairies living in wildflowers and the voices of trees that once I could see and hear, faded away.

 

 

Chapter 2

Shifts

The doctor smiled as he announced to my mother, “You have a beautiful baby girl but she has no legs.”

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Chapter 3

Home Alone

Sometimes after I got them to bed, I would sit, fetal, on the sagging couch, drinking jug wine and crying

Chapter 4

Friends

Although I was grateful, I didn’t understand what attracted them to me.

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