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Many trees on the Davidson College campus have metal identification tags nailed to their trunks. If it's true that plants have feelings, there may be some corrolation between our treatment of non-combattant maples and the frequency with which extraterrestrials shove probes up our butts. (Click image for larger version.) — Many trees on the Davidson College campus have metal identification tags nailed to their trunks. If it’s true that plants have feelings, there may be some corrolation between our treatment of non-combattant maples and the frequency with which extraterrestrials shove probes up our butts. (Click image for larger version.)

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By the morning of Saturday, November 21, everybody I’d invited to ride with me to the MUFON meeting in North Carolina had bailed for one reason or another, so I traveled alone with my Garmin to Cornelius. I located the Acropolis Café where the meeting was to be held and then, since I had an hour to kill, drove what couldn’t have been more than a few city blocks to Davidson where I discovered the Davidson College campus. I’d been looking for a coffee bar in Cornelius, unaware of Davidson or the college, so the sudden appearance of both came as quite a surprise.

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