“He saw a tree in a backyard, its branches tortured among electric wires and clotheslines, its leaves dry and shriveled before they were fully out. Low in the sky, dark clouds heralded the storm.”

—  Gabrielle Roy, book The Tin Flute

Source: The Tin Flute (1945), P. 383.

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