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    THE EVERGREEN AND THE RHODODENDRON

    Sep 01, 2019 3 minutes
    RETOLD BY VIRGINIA SHUMACHER
    ILLUSTRATED BY ENAN LIANG

    Characters: Narrator, Pip (the papal or banyan tree), Bandevi (the goddess of the forest), Utti (the uttis, an evergreen tree growing in ravines), and Rhoda (the laligurans, or rhododendron)

    Narrator: Long, long ago, in the Himalaya Mountains of Nepal, trees used to get married.

    Pip: Greetings, Bandevi, I am ready to match another pair of trees for marriage.

    Bandevi: Have you seen beautiful Rhoda? Her blossoms fill

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