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Kapre is a giant tree dweller smoking huge cigars

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If you smell cheap tobacco in the Philippine jungle, you might be standing under a massive, hairy giant who spends his entire existence chilling in a massive tree and puffing on a cigar the size of a baseball bat.

Kapre is a giant tree dweller smoking huge cigars
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