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Submitted to Contest #176
Cedar trees that grow close together become joined at the top, Max heard. That is why when some get cut down, others around them become vulnerable to high winds. When his people had first come from California, the trees were dense in his yard. But his family had cleared the land and filled in the landscape. High winds followed, uprooting more of the trees and leaving a sad, scraggly terrain—open and ugly, not richly textured as it once had been. At least in the center of the circle that all the homes on the cul-de-sac...
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