John Updike - When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the ...

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When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age - was, in a sense, me.

John Updike

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Als ich geboren wurde, pflanzten meine Eltern und die Eltern meiner Mutter im Nebenhof des großen weißen Hauses, in dem wir während meiner Kindheit lebten, einen Hartriegelbaum. Dieser Baum, den ich ziemlich früh gelernt habe, war genau in meinem Alter - war in gewissem Sinne ich.

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