It’s a simple story of well-rooted love, nurtured year after year, blooming, and producing fruit—but the latest chapter has social media entranced.
High school sweethearts Kelsey Dixon and her now-husband Wes Dixon planted a cherry tree together as teenagers in 2007 and have taken a photo with it every year since.
“It’s a good tradition and 17 million or so people on Instagram seem to think so too,” Dixon said on the platform, where a story she shared has been viewed something like 48 million times.
The two would go on to marry, but even after they moved 3,000 miles away, they’d return every year to take a photograph with the tree—including one with Dixon’s baby bump.
As if the team at GNN needed any more evidence that trees are connected to what’s going on around them, Dixon’s mother-in-law sent her a picture that left the couple stunned.
The cherry tree sprouted a clutch of basal sprouts, or suckers, from one of its roots—in the same year that Kelsey gave birth to two children.
Mrs. Dixon has now published a children’s book—Roots and Wings—about the events and tradition that inspired it.
Love is so often about little things that become (or perhaps always were) big things, and the story of the Dixons certainly fits that paradigm. It’s beautiful in its simplicity, much like the cherry blossoms it was born under.
WATCH the story below narrated by Kelsey…
SHARE This Beautiful Story With Your Friends On Social Media…