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When I was growing up, my dad had this pear tree in the backyard, that he would prune and work on year round. I don't know what he was doing to it, but it had the juiciest pears ever. My mamma told him that she would like a persimmon tree because that was her favorite. Every growing season I would go with my dad to pick up a persimmon tree, to see if we could get it to grow. For five years straight we would pick a different variety, and not a single one made it three months. He would try different soils, growing hormones, watering schedules, and he even tried grafting a limb. Persimmons were expensive in the grocery store, so mamma seldom bought them. Daddy never did get a tree started before he died, and the pear tree was hit by lightning, and died too. So to make my mamma happy, I turned to Craigslist. About a month before Thanksgiving, I would advertise that I was looking to buy persimmons for my mamma. The first year I found someone who would let me buy them for a quarter a piece. I bought forty of them for her. She was so happy. Every year after I would turn to Craigslist to supply my mamma's persimmon addiction.
Keep them happy, whatever it takes!

Story and selfie by Bruni

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