A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
In case you haven't caught the commercials, I'm in the new SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.
And from my place, and from the time that I went through my divorce, I also had my father pass away in the middle of all that. And it kind of made everything else just kind of like the back burner, you know.