RIP: The country’s most tragic Christmas tree has died

Better luck next Christmas, Rhode Island.

The Christmas tree in the rotunda at the Rhode Island statehouse has died, the Associated Press reported Friday. The pine’s demise comes after it lost a shocking number of needles over the last month, which by this week had blanketed the fake snow around its trunk. 

It was a sad — and not very Christmas-y — sight to behold.

Image: Michelle R. Smith/AP/REX/Shutterstock

Despite originally insisting that the deteriorating specimen would not be replaced, officials cut its remains down early this week. Read more…

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