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<h2>Flood Waters Destroy Grand Experiment</h2>

Yesterday's devastating flood in ^C1 had an unexpected--and tragic--outcome. Besides damage to city property everywhere, and the need to evacuate 15% of the city's population, the world-renowned avocado/coffee/cigar orchard, the only one of its kind, was destroyed.
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"It was so beautiful, seeing those cigars hanging next to those steaming cups of coffee and the green avocados--you'd never think such a thing would grow," lamented Zipster Bogtrot, orchard foreman. "And when those cups were just buds, they were the cutest little demitasse shape," he continued, tears just beginning to form. 