Her torso, outlined in light, was like the trunk of a cypress tree just entering the soil.

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And being made from the straightest of the straight-grained hinoki tree (Japanese cypress), it is a formidably expensive piece of wood.

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Robinson's plot is in section 6 on the Queens side of the graveyard, on Jackie Robinson Way near Cypress Road, across from a large stone mausoleum near a low black fence, tall evergreen tree and hedge row.

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