Griffin

CARLO

I was the second person in the garden I never thought it would grow to be this big! One day I saw an Asian girl planting beans and from that moment on I knew I must grow plants. I remember the last time I was in a garden it was back home in Italy with my dad. I have been living in Cleveland for almost thirty years now and never thought I would be reminded of home, but when I planted that first tomato I knew I would never look at Cleveland the same way at once memories of food and family flooded my mind. Then one day the first problem in the garden started to unfold. I was planting and watering when I looked up I saw the girl the first one in the garden. I had decided that I should make friends with her she seamed very nice and she could have some new fruits for me to grow. But just when I was about to start a conversation my mind held back I thought "maybe she does not speak English". That was when I looked up at one of the apartment buildings and I saw an old women eying the girl. At first I thought she was going to join the garden but then I realized how she was looking and remembered that the women had worked for the parole department and most likely thought that the girl was doing something bad. For the time being I thought nothing of it until the next day.

It was a nice day and my plants were getting very tall. I was feeling very proud of my work. Then out of the corner of my eye I saw the woman from the window. She was walking into the garden with a small shovel and stopped were the girl had been planting her beans__.__ My mind then realized what was going on she was going to dig up the beans! My mind kept telling me to stop her but I just sat there and watched. When she was done she looked terrible like she had seen a ghost. I ran over to her and said "Why did you do that"! She spun around and said "I am so sorry for what I have done I feel terrible". We walked back to the apartment and at the door she said that she hoped we could still be friends. On the way back I was thinking about that and Knew it was the start of a long friendship.

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