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| Two hundred year old silk cottonwood trees have swallowed many of the 12th century buildings, channeling some kind of arboreal equivalent of the endoparasite from the movie "Alien". |
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The trees spread their limbs all around, sometimes delicately like fragile pleated skirts, at other times ravenously like the death grip from a python's coils |
