Alice liked to save money. She scoured newspapers and tabloids to find coupons. She drove across town to pay few cents less per gallon of gas. She never dined in restaurants or went to movies. She hadn\u2019t taken vacation since husband died twenty years ago. She mowed lawn until arthritis forced to have dug out and replaced by gravel. Landscaper warned giant backyard tree leaning toward house and thick branches reaching over roof needed pruning.<\/p>\n
How much?<\/p>\n
About five hundred.<\/p>\n
Tree will outlast us both.<\/p>\n
In two years unusually wet and windy storm uprooted tree and flung onto Alice\u2019s roof. Thankfully, she\u2019d gone to bed and wasn\u2019t in TV chair when tree flattened living room and kitchen. Now Alice is staying in motel for three months, saddened insurance won\u2019t cover everything but encouraged tree cut up and sold as firewood. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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