REMEMBER THE PLANT
Between two bricks on the paved patio in our back yard a spindly yellowed string of a stem had somehow poked its inquisitive head. I noticed it one day and thought idly, “I must pull that weed again.” I had snipped it off at brick level a couple of times already. Several days passed before I got outside again to do some hard work. As I started to yank up the plant, something about the determined way the thing had forced itself between two bricks and sought the light and the sun kept me from doing it. I decided to investigate further. Carefully I lifted out one of the bricks and found a long trail of yellow stem stretched out on the ground. Lifting another brick, I discovered that the plant had started life under that second brick, had crept under the two bricks to a minute opening and then used all its strength, however puny, to force itself into…
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