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Katerina Jeng's avatar

love this so much <3

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anito's avatar

Thanks for writing this! I love the Balete tree as a symbol of resistance. The image of the Balete "[growing] over its host tree, slowly covering the old tree with its roots until the old tree dies" makes me think of the concept of "building a new world in the shell of the old."

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Maria Nilad's avatar

Yes, exactly!

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