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A teenage boy should approach adulthood like a stout sapling bound to become a tree \u2013 upright, solid in the core, branches on the spread, leaves yearning for the light from above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some boys,<\/strong> though, bend as they verge on manhood, maybe for having been planted in poor soil or having lacked clear light or good air. Their gazes curve downward to dirt rather than arc upward to the sky. Their roots are weak, their branches withered, their leaves sparse. They grow alone, absent the communal instruction of a mature forest, and therefore never understand what it is to be a tree. They see themselves as lesser, a bush or, worse, a weed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This boy<\/strong> sweeps an empty room, a place where his mother transplanted him. It was yet one more relocation in his life. Before he could gain footing, before he could adapt to the dark of the room and the dank of the air, she uprooted him once more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now he<\/strong> stands alone, unplanted, untended, unsure of who or what he is, looking for a place to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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