Beneath The Cherry Tree
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Last published Tue, Jan 12, 2016
It's 1951 and Dean Sands is an alcoholic who finds himself spiraling out of control. After losing his job, most of his family, all while returning home to an eviction notice taped to the front of his apartment, he decides that his life no longer has meaning. On a spring evening, Dean decides to end his life in a park beneath a beautifully blossomed cherry tree but it is here that he comes face to face with a young girl that acts as a doorway to the woman that would save this man's life. Over the course of two years, written in journal entries, hate, fall in love, cry, and laugh as you watch a series of heartwarming as well as heartbreaking events unfold.
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