Text complete: mary surreptitiously watched him from the kitchen window , and when he stopped beneath the big oak tree and picked up the stick to bring inside along with a few pine needles , she wondered what he planned to do with it . ryan chose a pen from among the girls ' coloring stash in the family room and , with his usual easy grace that extended from sports to everything else he did , he began to draw on the branch . when he was done making his illustrations , he stuck several pine needles into holes on either side of the
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