Typically found as an understory or middle layer shrub, witch hazel can reach heights of 15-20 feet but can be contained in the home landscape with judicious pruning.

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When a distraught Alice calls her parents in the middle of the night, revealing she hit a young girl with her car on an isolated forest trail, the movie tethers us to Maddie and Frank as they talk ...

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