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chestnuts no more!

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Kokubunji, 2023.12.09

There was a chestnut orchard near our home and I'm sad to report it's been pulled out and now it's like it was never there. Just an empty stretch of land. I sent a photo to Mari and she had no idea what she was looking at.

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If you are going to tell people the truth, you have to make them laugh, or they'll kill you.

—Oscar Wilde