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Bamboo Janet Kuypers on Facebook, written 9/2/18 He gave her the name of the bamboo near my home this bamboo that I love that grow so high, so strong and I didn’t want to care for this strange creature, even though he named her after something I love but more than that, he gave her a name and he made her more real than these bamboo trees. It made me look for her, want to give her food, water, though I had to learn that before she would accept anything from me she would have to first come to me, feel my hands along her, giving her love, before she’d even think of food # and he thought, maybe we should take her in, give her a home — and I thought, I know I love all but I don’t know if I can do this... you know how it is, you think of logistics, can you really bring in another life in its final years just to be heartbroken again. So we’d bring out food, day after day, give her extra water in the desert heat and he said next week, next week I’ll do it, I’ll bring her in so we can check on her health and then keep her forever until this morning, we brought out food, and there was no sign if her not for minutes, not for hours she might have been hiding in the bamboo so we checked again, and a day went by and there was still no sign of her life so all we could do after then was toast to the bamboo that grew too proud, too strong near our home and contemplate the relationship the might have been