【Love Conquest】

Better luck next Christmas,Love Conquest 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.

SEE ALSO: What's with all the upside-down Christmas trees this year?

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

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

The dead tree is survived by Rhode Island's new statehouse Christmas tree, which, per the Providence Journal, was installed late Monday afternoon.

May it stay intact until Dec. 25.

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