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‘(He) hired men to cut—paid them like rats to do it. The old saying goes that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. But—the opposite is more likely true. An apple is nothing but a seed’s escape vehicle, just one of the ingenious ways they hitch rides—in the bellies of animals, or—the wind—far away—She’s always believed that most people’s lives are lived as one great refutation of the ones that came before them.’

‚No, her son is not hers alone. He descends from many bloodlines. Or, more precisely, he descends from the one, great bloodline: born of the Earth and the cosmos and all the wondrous green things that allow us life.‘