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“Collecting mementos?”
“Hoh!” I gave a shout and popped up like a jack-in-the-box.
He looked down at what I was up to. He knew exactly what I was doing.
“Those are deodar cedars,” he said, hunkering down on his haunches next to me, gingerly caressing the little seedling with his fingers. He stood up and pointed. “The parent tree is right over there.” He was a short, middle-aged man, dark haired, with a clerk’s complexion but a scientist’s expression. He wasn’t wearing his circular-brimmed hat either. His eyes smiled.
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