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In “A Few Days Later, I Found My Mother Under The Tree,” by Rudyard Kipling, she is recalling a dream that left her mother breathless. In the dream, the mother had been buried under a tree and was unable to move. She is thinking back to the dream and feeling the terror of being trapped under a tree.
Source: My Mothers House & Sido
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