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Dear Mr Walnut Tree,

I would like to apologise on the behalf of mankind for ruining your beautiful earth. I would also like to thank you for holding strong and even managing to hold my weight, year after year. Thank you for being such an easy-to-climb tree, and thank you for being there whenever I have needed you. I would also like to say sorry on the behalf of my dad for leaning the old fence on your trunk. I hope you don’t mind me swinging on you all the time.

I’m sorry for carving my initials at the very top of you with my penknife. I shan’t do it again, I promise.

Just a quick question – were you planted or did you just grow naturally? If you were planted, when was it? And who did it?

I’m sorry for not maintaining a clean and tidy space around you on the floor of the garden. And the most utterly sincere apology that I would like to make to you today is that I’m truly sorry for letting Mum pay that stupid old man to come along and chop your head off last year.

I hope you enjoy your current position in the garden, and if you don’t, please feel very free to ask if you would like to be moved.

Thank you for not dying yet even though you live next to two apple trees that I’m not even sure are alive. Let’s just call them the ‘apple producing zombie trees’.

To conclude I would like to say don’t die, carry on living bold and strong for as long as you possibly can.

YOURS SINCERELY YOUR CLIMBER,

Benedict C. Winter, 12