This Is Real Life

by Artycomicfangirl

Mia has lived in ThneedVille her whole life and has seen it change from a wonderful and beautiful place full of Truffla trees, to a wasteland beyond the town walls where every tree and seed was all gone. She tells a story of her past through her eyes years ago when she was a young woman, about where it all began and how she came to meet the Once-ler, who she will never forget

1. The Story Begins

ThneedVille is such a wonderful place…. It's full of interesting people to meet and full of mysterious things just waiting to be discovered, but one of the most treasured beauties that ThneedVille has in the palm of its hand, are the Truffla trees. The Truffla trees are magnificent tall trees! Some people might say that the trunk of the tree looks almost similar to a chocolate candy cane and the top part of the tree is said to be so fluffy and soft that if you decided to climb up the tree yourself to the canopy, you would be asleep in a matter of minutes!

Even though ThneedVille is a friendly and beautiful community now… there was a time many years ago, when ThneedVille's natural beauty had been lost. The Trees had been chopped down to make and invention from the town's namesake, the Thneed. Although the invention was a success, it was draining away all the life from not just the trees, but a large part of the nature of ThneedVilled. When the last tree had been chopped down… it was all gone… The trees could not be grown back to life, because the seeds were all gone as well. The animals had left, the air was polluted and there wasn't a single blade of fresh green grass anywhere. It seemed like all hope for the trees, was gone forever… Then everything fell apart from there and ThneedVille changed dramatically…

I have lived half of my life surrounded with fake, plastic trees and nature. The trees were manufactured in factories and there was no signs of life from true nature… I remember hating it so much… I missed the truffla trees and I considered moving away… but I wanted to stay, so I could find a way to bring the trees back.

And this was all started from once person… a person who I loved with all of my heart, but whose dangerous greed for fame and fortune, changed him into someone who I no longer knew anymore.

I am going to tell you my side of the story now… the story from where it all began before the disaster happened when I was a young woman, and how one young boy, brought hope back to ThneedVille with one single Truffla tree seed…

Oh, How silly! I was so caught up into telling you my story, I seemed to have forgotten to introduce myself... such a forgetful old mind I have!

My Name… is Ms Mia Redwood