Like so many of us, their roots are firmly planted deep in the corner of College and Magnolia.
Across from the Vault, Sky and the drug store they've sat for what seems like forever, reminding rush hour drivers and midnight revelers of all their memories through the branch shaped corridor that leads to school.
And soon, maybe before we graduate a new class of seniors, our trees will be removed from that hallowed ground.
While we may eagerly await or passively ignore the result of the Harvey Updyke trial, we know that the oaks received a lethal dose of poison from someone and they will not be around for rolling past this spring.
If you were lucky enough to come to Auburn as a child and grow up with football games and roll the giants that seemed like elephant legs, you remember a point, though probably fuzzy and poorly defined, that the trees assumed their real, normal size.
They were never really that large and their current sickness doesn't help make their appearance more impressive.
Now, walking by them, it's almost as if you can hear them quote Shel Silverstein's Giving Tree wheezing, "I am sorry... I wish that I could give you something, but I have nothing left."
But they do have something left.
Memories like childhood trips with old friends and family members and of the 2010 national championship party will always linger around the corner.
And the University has planned a final celebration around the trees centered around A-Day weekend and is putting into motion the process of figuring out what exactly is next for Auburn and the corner.
While we wait for what the replacement monuments will be, let's make sure we enjoy the eye candy of the trees while they're still here and make it out to roll them one last time into a beautiful wintry, white oblivion.
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