Did you know the biggest Heart in America is Pining away hiding & nearly forgotten?
Many of the clan of giants survived into the early 1900's, some living to be 1,000 years old before being slaughtered, cut up, and shipped away to many places.
Few can imagine a heart 3' wide, but even harder to consider, it is 135' tall. How is it you never learned of a Heart so big that it truly pines me to share the sad story with you? Once, before the Europeans came to America, giants, with shadows that covered the Earth so well that creatures would thrive in its shade from high up in the sky where they would nest in its hair of foot-long needles, indeed, the Long Leaf Pine was an ancient of the grandest measure with the finest Heart of any tree East of the Rockies... if not the entire USA.
What remnants of the giant hearts of old stay mostly hidden and forgotten, rotting somewhere never to be known or admired for the millennium that they were alive and thriving before modern man showed up and chopped them down. No true respect for them ever came into the human consciousness until most of the giants were decimated, forests cut to the ground without a heart in the men that did it, sliced, diced, and shipped it away from its home for h…
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