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Under a sullen sky, Donna Blair, 54, dabbed tears and watched her $6.8 million vacation condo slip into the sea. Not that she was upset. "It's amazing," she said, a glass of champagne in her hand. "It's different from any of the other homes we own, that's for sure!" Donna and husband Jim, 56, had come from San Jose, Calif., to Landskrona, Sweden, to watch The World of ResidenSea, the world's first luxury condominium cruise ship, sail for Norway, where it would be painted and outfitted with a shipbuilder's equivalent of a Barguzin sable coat...
...Blairs' motivations are vastly more complex than bragging rights. They have scuba dived in the Red Sea and sky dived in New Zealand. But they began to re-evaluate their future as they watched their parents' once zestful lives become circumscribed by age. Jim, whose father died last year, has partly retired from his thriving commercial-development company, and the couple wants to spend more time with friends and family, including three grandsons. Says Donna: "All of a sudden, we're the older generation. We began to ask how we wanted to spend the days we have left...
...Another Sky is not without its faults. One can only take so many saccharine, happy, cloyingly idyllic tracks before going into insulin shock. As light evanescence is followed by more of the same, one yearns for some display of brutally raw feeling. Alas, sweetness and light is all that Altan has to offer, their skilled musical maneuverings failing to stray from the same emotional note. But all things told, while Another Sky may not be the pot of gold at the end of the musical rainbow, it’s still a fine piece o’ work...
...Another Sky...
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