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... ing under cataclysmic wind and rain. Splinter. Break. Shatter. Die.

Persist.

Green shoots rise from a splintered stump. Three die: one devoured, one uprooted, and one starving in the shade. The fourth grows, rises, armored in bark and pumped with verdant sap. Breaks again. Dies again.

Persist.

From broken stump, the fifth rises. Then the sixth. Seventh. Eighth. Ninth. A refusal of ruin.

Persist.

Roots grow deep and far. A hundred trunks, ten thousa ...

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