San Francisco's 'wishing tree' grows holiday hopes and dreams

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SAN FRANCISCO — Every holiday season, San Francisco resident Vanessa Sabarese forgoes the usual ornaments and tinsel. Instead, she decorates her tree with people's hopes and dreams.

Sabarese has converted a tree in front of her Noe Valley home into a "wishing tree," a place where passers-by can write anonymous notes, which she encases in plastic and hangs from the branches

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In the four years since she started the tradition, the tree has been home to hundreds of wishes, mostly from kids. They range from holiday wish-list staples like a dog, to the whimsical or absurd, like a lifetime supply of cupcakes or a pooping cow. Some are darker — a child wishes "mommy and daddy didn't fight." Read more...

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