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Tyeita - 10/23/2025

II was a good leaf from a patch tree

I remind you of Christmas time and adornments to decorate the Christmas tree

I am almost fully grown I have changed colors I smell like the beige wet leaves that fall off the trees in the fall time on the front of me my color has turned to velvet smoke rose purpl red and on the back I have veins.

I was walking with my father in riverside park and I asked him about our walk the park and the trees and he reached up and plucked a leaf from a big wide tree that was tall and sort of beige like the sycamore trees the lead was green dark and fully grown and he gave me the leaf and he told me I liked it keep it to put it in my pocked I was round about 5 years old I put the leaf in my pocket and we kept walking to enjoy over to the park it taught me to respect our trees pass through the area and to love and be kind to the trees and ask for love and relationship