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briar

On-Yomi: シ、ジ — Kun-Yomi: いばら、かや、くさぶき

Koohii stories:

1) [ihatobu] 15-8-2007(225): To prevent animals from eating the beautiful flowers in your garden, the best thing to do is to plant briar bushes immediately next to them.

2) [bendyarm] 26-9-2007(69): The briar patch may look unremarkable now before it blooms, but there will be flowers next, and it will be beautiful.

3) [samuize] 1-3-2007(38): Once you plant your flowers, what inevitably come up next are briars.

4) [cerulean] 28-9-2008(34): An important life lesson: Briars are always NEXT to FLOWERS.

5) [taijuando] 14-12-2006(18): Briars are the kind of flowers that comes up next after a property is abandoned….it's an ecological succession.

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