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On-Yomi: コ — Kun-Yomi: か.れる、か.らす

Koohii stories:

1) [sutebun] 16-10-2007(189): A tree withers away as it gets old.

2) [Danieru] 15-11-2007(68): When flowers get old they suffer (frame 225), but old trees just WITHER away painlessly. (Picture flowers crying in pain, but a dried up tree silent and sad).

3) [Kurisu] 28-1-2008(17): The tree is old and withered.

4) [chibimizuno] 15-3-2009(7): I had trouble remembering this one using tree and old, so I just thought of what the wood of an old man would look like, and that did the trick.

5) [gorgon] 29-5-2006(7): When flowers get old they are said to be suffering (225) but there is no sympathy for the poor old tree which simply withers!

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