Melinda tries expressing her trauma from the party in her art project. Give me a quote for this.

"My tree is definitely breathing; little shallow breaths like it just shot up through the ground this
morning. This one is not perfectly symmetrical. The bark is rough. I try to make it look as if initials
had been carved in it a long time ago. One of the lower branches is sick. If this tree really lives
someplace, that branch better drop soon, so it doesn't kill the whole thing."