Congolese army soldiers pointed out the flashes of gunfire coming from the Rwandan border, marked by a line of trees.

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On the western boundary stood a line of ash trees that he wished, in dictatorial moods, to cut down, because they filled his garden with seeds.

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You could follow it from there by looking at the empty spaces in a solid line of trees, the rootballs waving their witchy root toes in the air.

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He saw things he recognized but his brain, befuddled with chemicals released by fear, couldn't locate the words to describe them: the twin stacks spewing plumes of dirty white smoke, the abandoned custom's station with a faded red star painted above the door, the line of white-washed bee hives on a slope near a copse of stunted apple trees.

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