Today's OneWord: Branch

Harold wanted to extend the olive branch to his wife, but she was unwilling to take it. Probably because it was quite literally an olive branch, and she had no use for it. Harold had never been one to understand figures of speech or metaphors, so when his therapist had encouraged the gesture, he had gone to great lengths to find a limb straight from an olive tree.

"I don't even like olives," his wife griped as she went back to her separate bed.

Harold would have to learn one way or another.

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