caresses

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In the corner between two cypresses, I crumpled into a squat and cried.

From Slate • Jan. 2, 2025

The population drastically declined when its host trees, 1,000-year-old bald cypresses, were logged in World War Two to provide lumber for aircraft carrier decks.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2023

“The cypresses still preoccupy me,” he wrote in June 1889, in a letter to his indefatigably devoted brother, Theo.

From New York Times • May 11, 2023

Li points to a line of cypresses near a highway that booms with the inescapable red cargo trucks of China.

From National Geographic • Apr. 21, 2023

Maxine was happy in her house behind the cypresses.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides