The Once-ler, in Dr. Seuss's telling, loved Truffula trees alas, so much that he consumed them all.
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When we hear the door of the very last bookstore slam shut with the same sort of "sickening smack" that announced the chopping of the last Truffula tree, will the Once-lers of the digital world regret their destruction of the old literary habitat?
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