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alphafemale

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6. lol. On my top ten list of Cool Shit I've Seen
Sun Nov 10, 2013, 07:42 AM
Nov 2013

Still top of the list is:

When I was about ten and I went outside. (lived in the country) And our dog is barking madly at a tree. It was a Liver and White Springer Spanial. Not that that is important. But Spanials are not generally neurotic dogs that you would expect to bark at random trees. And also painting a picture in your mind a bit.

I shushed the dog and realize the tree was...groaning. One of the old gnarled apple trees on our back acres. Apples in a strictly genetic sense. They were hard, mealy, sour things. Suitable only to twist onto a pointed stick to launch as a projectile at your best friends head.

But anyway the tree was groaning.

Then suddenly it split nearly in half.

I witnessed a Treeicide. lol

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