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What started as blissful place sadly faded with no green (6,2,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

garden of eden

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'what started as blissful place' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'sadly faded with no green' is the wordplay.
'sadly' is an anagram indicator.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'no'+'green'='nogreen'
'faded' after 'nogreen' is 'nogreenfaded'.
'nogreenfaded' is an anagram of 'GARDEN OF EDEN'.

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(Other definitions for garden of eden that I've seen before include "Biblical paradise" , "Genesis paradise" , "holy plot?" , "Pre-lapsarian paradise" , "Scene in Genesis" .)

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