A tall silver oak with its pale leaves and silvery trunk rose tall above the tin roofs of a cluster of small houses. Each house had its own banana tree and a rickety gate with climbing roses and other flowering creepers. A patchwork quilt of terraced fields fell down the mountainside behind them. The setting sun lit up the snow-clad peaks of the Kanchen…
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