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In the summer of 2002, I was dating a girl from a small town in Missouri whose family owned a well-known

apple orchard. She lived in a house that overlooked the Missouri River on top of a hill on the Missouri River

Bluffs. I deer hunted this area for many years. I always wondered why the woods were so dead quiet, with no sounds of life coming from any

type of animal.

There were a few times I remember hearing large limbs snapping or sounds of trees falling over,

but I didn't pay much attention to that.

In many years of hunting this property, it was strange to me that I never

kill many deer, especially since I was hunting on the edge of an apple orchard. The apple orchard

sat directly on top of the Missouri River Bluffs, and there were over 100 acres of apple trees

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