Although I had grown to be an adult, they still seemed to keep some secret from me, one that I was not to know of yet, one that I am not ready yet to learn.

"I don't know why it grows like that, it just always has, " he told reporters.

She developed into a beautiful woman.

And then one day, seeing a young tree and wondering if that's how fully grown trees start out.

He slowly coaxed them into growing, and eventually, into growing roots.