Count its years.
Read from the heart outward. Move your finger across the rings. Every ring is a year that actually happened.
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Touch the wood to begin.
Ages are approximate until the rings are formally counted. The years are real either way.
Tight, patient rings, a slow grower that watched St. Boniface change around it. Its exact street is being added to this record.
Read from the heart outward. Move your finger across the rings. Every ring is a year that actually happened.
No pieces yet. Whatever comes from this oak will carry this page with it.