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"#Requiem for a #Tree" by Amy Stewart https://amystewart.substack.com/p/requiem-for-a-tree EXCERPT: “Poor doomed #tree,” I said [of the cedar now scheduled to be removed]. “I bet it doesn’t know why it has a ribbon around it.” “It probably thinks it’s getting a plaque,” [my husband] said. Oh, that crushed me! Of course it would’ve hoped for a plaque! Over the roofs . . ., it could see the tops of two venerable old elms that both have plaques. . . . What do they have, the cedar might’ve wondered, that I don’t have?