Water the Tree, Coil the Hose

How to grow a family

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There’s a river birch with four spindly trunks in the very back of our backyard. Four years ago, my husband and I planted it there for shade and symbolic gesture. It was a wedding ceremony, but we’d already been married two years, and no one attended except for our eighteen-month-old twins. Still, we four were the trunks of this tree, fused together at the base with shared…