How to Tell a Tree Story

Think gaudy East Harlem hookah-bar décor. Think candlelight. Think hot, smoke-thick, cinnamon-scented air. Think fledgling romance. Think hushed Arabic. Think midnight. Think Bono crooning quietly under the sounds of October in New York or New York in October, singing, blue-eyed boy meets a brown-eyed girl. Oh-oh-oh. The sweetest thing.

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