2005 • Fairfax, VA, USA
There was a tree in my elementary school that I used to climb a lot as a child, as well as a lot of other kids, and over the years I've seen the tree diminishing, losing a lot of it's branches and bark, and I was told that it was cut down, because a new playground was going to be built on top of it.
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