"My Own True Family" tells the story of a young boy who is cursed by an old woman and dreams he is tied to a stake, surrounded by a ring of talking oak trees. The trees, who the narrator describes as his "own true family," make him promise that he will plant two trees wherever he sees one cut down with the threat of rooting him to the ground like a tree. The boy emerges from this experience with "the walk of a human child, but [his] heart was...
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