Not your everyday sunrise

I remember former KMOX morning personalities Bob Hardy and Bill Wilkerson having the following exchange in November 1984:

Hardy: That's an unveiling sunrise?
Wilkerson: Oh, yeah, that's grape punch with floating cinnamon sticks.
Hardy:  I'll tell ya...What?  Grape punch?
Wilkerson: Look at that.  Don't you see that?  Grape punch with floating cinnamon sticks.

Hardy and Wilkerson then delved into a newscast.  Then, during the weather forecast:

Hardy: I'm cruisin' all up and down that horizon, and I don't see cinnamon sticks and grape punch...

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...I had never seen grape punch with floating cinnamon sticks in the sky, either--until yesterday.  While driving yesterday morning, I saw the sunrise, and there they were.  The grape punch was readily abundant.  I had to look closely to see the floating cinnamon sticks, but they were there, as well.  I'm not entirely sure of my own blood type, but Wilkerson's description of a sunrise has stayed in my mind.  It was a pleasure, 31 years later, to see it brought to life.