under the willow tree


	willow is a quiet five-and-a-half-year-old girl. She is the second-youngest of the five young people who came to us from down in the tunnels in March 2003. Her sisters are Frieda, who is 13½, Kecia, who is 10½, and arianna, who is 2½. Their oldest sister, Nia, is still in her room. To help her feel safe, we told willow we would get her a stuffy all her own. Our stuffies are very important to us--they are our friends. willow chose a soft, golden-brown teddy bear with a gingham ribbon around his neck. And she was very happy to have a stuffy as soft as Gingham Bear. Then one day our bigs gave Kecia a Piglet stuffy. And willow saw that Gingham Bear was much bigger than Kecia's Piglet.
That didn't seem right to willow. Kecia was much bigger girl and should have a bigger stuffy, willow thought. They could trade stuffies. But what if Kecia didn't want to trade? Then willow found out that Kecia didn't feel the same way about Piglet as willow felt about Gingham Bear. It was okay with Kecia if she and willow traded stuffies. So that was what they did. And Kecia thanked willow for giving her the bear that had made her so happy.

Protector Wolf also stays under the willow tree--and helps willow feel safe.

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Bear Club teddy adapted by Little Wing (no longer in service) from a public-domain image. Site logo by shawn. Willow tree image
adapted by Laura from a photo from UConn's Salix Babylonica Page. Wolf image adapted by Joseph from a photo from GalenFrysinger.com.
Title design and gingham ribbon by Laura and Allegra. If you want to use any of our original or adapted graphics, please link back to GP Creative.

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