Story! The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries

[sonia]

The Tree Who Set Healthy Boundaries by Topher Payne, an alternate ending to Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree

Comments

[tshuma]

Yes, I was so happy when I came across that. It healed a part of me that was still torn up from reading that in childhood.

[sonia]

Yeah, I never thought about it directly, but I had an uneasiness about it. "Is that how I'm supposed to behave?" This ending is much better!

[silveradept]

That was a very good cover change, and I liked the Rainbow Fish one as well.

[sonia]

Yeah! Good advice from the catfish! I hadn't noticed the others before you mentioned that. I wasn't familiar with Rainbow Fish, but I had definitely given the original "Love You Forever" the side-eye.