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“A boy and his apple tree”
Once during a flight to China I read an interesting article on a magazine, it was a short story called “A boy and his apple tree”. I don’t know who the author was but it doesn’t matter, it caught my attention. Likely many lessons could be driven from this story in and I am pretty [...]