Title: The Guilting Tree
Review: I speak as one of many who grew up with this great book my parents loved and swooned over and read to me ... which I didn't understand but felt a sinking feeling of dread while reading it. Lo and behold years later I realized -- a child's introduction to Guilt! Slow-growing, ever-increasing, relentless emotional indebtedness. This was the only feeling I had about the book, until as young adults, distanced from our loving giving parents due to our ungrateful natures, a co-worker and I realized we had both hated The Guilting Tree. A third, sorrily uninitiated co-worker asked us "What does the Giving Tree do?" My friend summed it up best: "It gives. Until it is a stump. And then it lets you sit on it."
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