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A gap the forest tolerates until it decides to grow back over you.
light trapSun floods in, so seedlings race to win the gap
bankingTrades clear here too, settling debts between distrustful strangers
customs termClearing means goods escape a border's bureaucratic limbo
fairy loreEuropean myths warned against dancing in forest clearings alone
firebreakDeliberate clearings starve wildfires of fuel to spread