Oliver reached up for my hand and led me back into the living room area. “Can we try something?” I rolled my eyes. “Do I really have a choice?”“ You always have a choice, Novi, ” Oliver said.

Brynn Myers
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The children's book "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein is an allegory about the nature of love. According to this story, love is like a tree. The main character, a boy named Oliver, comes across a beautiful tree in the forest. When he expresses his admiration for the tree, the tree gives him everything that he wants.

As time progresses, however, Oliver becomes greedy and refuses to give back any of the gifts that the tree provided for him. Instead, Oliver begins giving the gifts away to other people in need, eventually leaving nothing for himself. Eventually, when the tree is dying from being so depleted of its resources, Oliver returns to look at it one last time.

He sees that instead of being skinny and dying, the tree has become well-rounded and strong again. Although Oliver was not able to live up to his end of the bargain, the moral of this story is that love is not something that can be taken or given away at will.

Source: Falling Out Of Focus

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