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to Ecuador<\/address>\n
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leaf cutter ants<\/address>\n
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my blue dress on \u00a0today<\/address>\n
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and a Great long wall<\/span><\/address>\n
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a path \u00a0outside the place\u00a0<\/address>\n
an army of True Foragers<\/address>\n
cutting leaves and bringing \u00a0them<\/address>\n
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\u00a0cacao leaves and coffee leaves<\/span><\/address>\n
brought into their fungi garden
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the vital force and rhythm<\/address>\n
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\u00a0ire fears<\/address>\n
and to the by byprodufts<\/address>\n
some of them sown below<\/address>\n
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Ecuador has land of exceptional<\/address>\n
beauty<\/address>\n
volcanoes driving magma to the sky<\/address>\n
caldera\u2019s full of water bluer than \u00a0Some ocean depths<\/address>\n
Eagles on the katabatic \u00a0breeze
\nfrom way up high<\/address>\n
a special kind \u00a0of fanning
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Gifts \u00a0all round And what is \u00a0A sustainable<\/address>\n
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\nbeing on the level of understanding much<\/address>\n
tasting some samples of the food<\/address>\n
and loving it as such<\/address>\n
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in the vast enclosure<\/address>\n
\u00a0Close up to their queen<\/span><\/address>\n
experiencing their exotics<\/address>\n
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