"The attempted killing of two trees that are occasionally draped with toilet paper might have been considered a blip on the police blotter.
But when those two 130-year-old live oaks shade an intersection known as Toomer’s Corner in Auburn, Ala. — considered sacred ground among the Auburn University faithful — and are poisoned, apparently in the name of the University of Alabama football icon Bear Bryant, the normal order of business is upended."
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