About the book: 2006 / Sally came along here. I must say that I have the most friendly feelings for her. She is quite old - her trunk is a good yard thick - but she has always been attentive to me. In the mornings she raised her branches to block the sun from my window, and I never allowed other trees to take her place on the porch. Now, with a grunt, she began to settle down there again, straightening the roots and pushing them one by one into the previous holes..