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“‘It’s like oak wilt,’ she’d say. ‘The words are the fungus that penetrates the sapwood of the tree. The girl does what she can to walk it off, maybe by laughing, maybe by ignoring, maybe by keeping another guy by her side, but by walking it off she cuts off her water supply and then wilts. You need to understand that the fungus tricks the tree into harming herself.’”