"julia helps with the dishes while charles takes the kids out back for some hide-and-seek . through the window box filled with mother 's herbs , i can see my grown daughter hiding on the little hill behind the pine tree i gave mom when i was ten . it was for the table top at christmas and now stands over 50 feet tall . sometimes i look at my girls like i do that _ ..." What is the word in the blank space (_)? The answer is
tree