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Melinda's art project is to draw a tree. Her reaction is to say that drawing a tree is too easy.

He stops at my table. I plunge my hand into the bottom of the globe and fish out my paper. "Tree." Tree? It's too easy. I learned how to draw a tree in second grade. I reach in for another piece of paper. Mr. Freeman shakes his head. "Ah-ah-ah," he says. "You just
chose your destiny, you can't change that."