Required reading when I was in Grade 9 (eons ago), was the 1943 novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. And now, eons later, all I remember about the book is the title - but the metaphor for the novel is the Tree of Heaven, that has a persistent ability to grow and flourish even in the harshest of conditions - and that is certainly the case for this little hawthorn tree on an exposed hillside, overlooking the mighty Bla Bheinn, Isle of Skye.
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