We had an avocado tree in our backyard growing up, in one of the more concrete-y neighborhoods of central Los Angeles. It was the humble avocado tree behind the kinda-rusted, maybe a little dangerous, still totally playable swing set in our patchygrass, mangy dog wandering, backyard.
I think of the relentless to-do list my parents upheld while my sister and I were kids… things like: go to work, survive work, have food in the house, pay the light bill, raise not asshole children… having a fluffy-grassed backyard wasn’t a huge priority.
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