We have this very big tree inside our school grounds when I was still in college. Every time I enter our campus I would see this old Acacia tree, looking awesome. Because of its huge branches and blackish vines hanging from them, with its building roots and horrendously thick trunk, it had long reigned supreme over our school playground, like a god demanding worship. I saw it to be the biggest and strongest tree in my entire life.
But one day, a terrible storm struck and its violent winds tore upon the tree. Next school day, we saw the tree cut up, its whole weight bent down to the ground, humbled and ashamed. We mournfully gathered around it but, to our amazement, we saw that the inside of the truck was hollow, nibbled away by tiny pests. The mighty one was merely an empty shell.
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