Brightbill arrives at the grove to see what has happened to his mother, and if she’s been reset.
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Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
30 May 2025
Best View There’s no bad view along this hike, but the perspective from the grove of Torrey Pines gives you a broad field of vision that takes in the grasslands, cliffs, and Pacific that stretches on for eternity.
She had been dragged and pushed by two men into a copse on Hampstead Heath.
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Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
The eyes in the sky gazed down on a copse of spindly trees in western Russia, hooking onto where North Korean forces were coalescing, a Ukrainian special operations forces commander, who is being identified only by his call sign, Green, told Newsweek.
But on January 11, 1937, a young man hunting rabbits south of Everett finds Charles’s naked, battered body dumped in a thicket of alders, knifed in the back and beaten in the head with a blunt instrument.
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Caroline Fraser
June 10,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2025
The Trump administration has been ensnared in a Lilliputian thicket of nationwide injunctions almost since the moment that Donald Trump was sworn in and began issuing executive orders.
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