1 Read the sentences from the story. "We were like two seeds planted in a 14 points rock... but somehow when our daughter, Annie, came, we took
root." (paragraph 31) He was a seed thrown into a rock, and you and me,
Annie, we helped push a flower out of the rock."(paragraph 102)What
does Annie's mother mean when she describes their family in these
lines?
The father and the mother hid their true past from the daughter, but when she learned
of it, the truth allowed them all to grow
The couple did not love each other, but when their daughter came, they pretended they
had love for for her sake
The father was cold and hard, crushing the mother and the daughter, but then he
softened.
The world around the couple was hard, but with the help of their daughter, their love
grew and the husband changed the
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