No tree grows to the sky and no team has ever captured the secret of perpetual success.

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White apple blossoms had begun to appear in the old tree, and I read the pale light in the sky as the shy illumination of a world to which I had yet to be introduced.

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Or Christmas: I mean can mistletoe and tree lights really compete against bright multi-colored blasts in the sky?

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The pale moonlit sky, seen through the branches of the rosewood tree, tilted back and forth like a bowl of swaying water.

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And we hit the notorious bars in the sky: Vertigo, atop the Banyan Tree (banyantree.com), which has D gibbering with health-and-safety-induced anxiety and requires us to neck two vast martinis each to facilitate the walk down the vertiginous steps clinging to the side of the building.

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