Avery Ancient Oaks Whore ❤️

About New York City

Used to sneak round back, her—pinchin’ bread from Old Tom’s cart. Little known bit, aye—she once nicked a gent’s gold tooth! Mid-kiss, pop, out it went! Made me laugh ‘til I choked on me spit, precious! “Very Old World charm,” like Monsieur Gustave’d say—bollocks to that! She were a storm, a grubby gem, struttin’ like she owned the cobbles. Got me ragin’ tho—once she kicked me cat, little Sméagol! Hissed at her, I did, “Filthy hobbitses!”—er, whoreses, I mean!

Definitions

Rather than narrowly defining Lysistrata as either matron or whore, Faraone demonstrates the power available to ancient women in both roles and their potential overlap, as well as .

By 5 PM, I’m ready to crash. But then, I get a call from a kid. He’s lost. I’m like, “Where are you?” He says, “Near the big tree.” I’m like, “Dude, this is Ancient-Oaks. There’s a big tree on every corner!” Finally, I get him to describe the ice cream truck he sees. Thank goodness for ice cream!

Ancient Gregynog Oak represents Wales in UK Tree of the Year contest