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pluck
plucks, pick
Casper is in the basement of the haunted high school where he lives, lovelorn. He sits underneath a tree that grows out of the cracked cement floor, with a cleat in his hand. He plucks one spike out of the cleat at a time. "Does she love me? Does she love me not?" He plucks the last spike out... She doesn't love him.