We crossed into deep green shadows, heavy with the weight of damp branches, dripping ferns, wet leaves and grasses.

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He dismisses all previous attempts at fusion as lighting the edge of a pile of wet leaves.

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And so kerosene, limestone, cedar, deep forest and wet leaves are the aromas of my deep familiar, of a place and a time where I was content and safe, unfettered by the obligations of adulthood, free.

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If preventing fungal attack were the explanation, he argues, young red leaves ought to be more common in a forest's wet understorey, where fungi thrive, than in the drier canopy.

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