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It seems as if it was only yesterday I heard two children squealing, "Push me, PePaw. Make me go high," but If can't because it has been more than a year since the grandkids used them. They are hanging still and quiet in the moonlight and in the shadows of those old pine trees. When they are only three or four years old, grandchildren can visit almost anytime. But when they begin school, they can only come once or twice a year for short visits. When they do, there is so much to do they don't have time to swing under pine trees in the back yard. When they do come, Grandparents have to cram so many months of activities in only a day or so, there is no time for swinging. It has been a long time since those old pine trees have heard squeals of children swinging on their boughs. They are hanging still tonight. Its winter time now in our back yard, and it is winter time in the dwindling years of our lives. 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