LIES, LIES, ALL LIES

When I am five, I am climbing this massive oak
*** maple
*** dogwood tree.

It is thirty feet
*** twenty feet
*** it is ten feet tall.

I am swinging in this tree
*** climbing in this tree
*** precariously perched in this tree
*** sitting securely in this tree when a bird suddenly flies by
*** this huge gust of wind
*** I get scared of the heights easily, and
*** I slip and fall.

On the way down, my left foot gets caught between two branches, and I get stuck there, upside down.

I scream
*** wail
*** yell for my mother, but she does not hear me, and I hang there for three hours until all the blood rushes to my head and
*** for an hour until I grow queasy
*** for about five minutes until she comes for me.

I almost died
*** had brain damage
*** was traumatized
*** I was really scared
*** I was fine.

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When I am five, I fall out of a tree and my foot gets caught in the branch. I hang there for five minutes until my Mom helps me.