Five years ago,
Mrs. Hackett removed her gardening gloves and stepped back on her front lawn to admire the tomato plant she had been growing since the last time Jamie visited from college. She gleamed, caressing the petals of the hip-high plant that she saw sprout from an insignificant little seed. Every day she gave it love, watered its roots, and guarded it from getting too much sun. Yet, when the woman who took care of it asked for a fruit, the ungrateful plant decided he wasn't going to college anymore. According to him, after breaking up with Siggy, he had a major depression that disrupted his studies and that college was not for him.
The gardener learned the hard way, that no matter how much she tended to the plant's needs and showed it how to be successful, the plant would make wo
