Growing up with Apples

I grew up eating apples.  My neighbors also cousins, had several apple trees in their yard.  So when we would play, we invariably ended up eating green reddish apples.  We ate them all the time.  Maybe that's why I stayed so skinny - not sure.  I have an apple tree in my yard now but usually the deer eat those apples before we ever get to them.  I don't think it's the same kind of apple tree as we had when we were kids.  Anyway, I keep telling myself - apples are my friends!