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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Some people still swear they can read the English word "sex" in the fronds of the Coco-de-Mer palm tree that adorns the ten-rupee note issued by the island nation of the Seychelles.

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For your health and pocketbook, read The End of Medicine--more fruit from Schumpeter's tree.

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The grounds include a large copper beech tree under which Lincoln often read or relaxed.

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With sixty sheep to one boy and all the tree shade he could want, my grandfather taught himself to read that first summer.

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Once the sole province of young boys and Ewoks, tree houses offer adventurous travelers (read: unafraid of heights) a unique travel experience in an age of roadside motel chains and globe-stretching hotel corporations.

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