The tree that Anne Frank liked to look at is riddled with mushrooms and infested with moths that make its leaves curl and turn yellow. It should be cut down, and a new tree planted in its place, but no one wants to do this.

We are all parents of Anne Frank now, so we will act as mistaken as real parents, and try to please her by taking great care with the things that don’t matter, and doing as we please with regard to everything else.