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Marlowe laughs and makes a face a little like a grimace.
"Not…exactly," they say. "It kind of doesn't help that the site ran an article about that tree this morning, and that was kind of the main thing I was planning to cover. I mean, I wasn't exactly expecting that no one else would write about it, but I was still kind of disappointed. Although, maybe it just shows that it's the kind of thing people would want to read—and I guess if I did get it off the ground, there's nothing to stop me covering it again in more detail. But, you know, it doesn't really feel like the right time to start bothering my bosses about something like that."
They shrug—but at the same time, they give you a smile that lets you know they're happy that you would think to ask about it.
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