My Neighbor Forced My Children to Return Every Apple That Fell Into Our Yard. When My Husband Saw the Pictures, He Smiled and Said, “Leave This to Me.”
I watched my six-year-old daughter carry another handful of apples toward our neighbor’s fence before I finally realized what was happening. She wasn’t bringing them inside. She was returning them to Dale, the man who owned the enormous apple tree hanging over our backyard. For years, his branches had stretched across the fence, dropping apples…