It was wonderfulhaving her home. Every day we'd take a walk, and I'd jabber onlike a monkey in a tree, and she'd listen aboutPing-Ponging and shrimping and Mama makinga trip up to heaven.

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and then, "I'd like to go by climbing a tree."

我真想去爬白桦树，“

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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.

我真想去爬白桦树，沿着雪白的树干，爬上乌黑的树枝，爬向那天心，直到树身再支撑不住，树梢碰着地，把我放下来。

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That's not a family tree we'd like to be tasked with creating.

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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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