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MIAMI — Rising from the dead, the neon Big Orange will scale the side of a downtown Miami hotel after all to ring in the New Year. Organizers had said Wednesday that the beloved flashy orange would be replaced by a digital replica for the annual countdown tradition. But on Thursday, plans were on again to have the physical Big Orange rise to the top of the Hotel InterContinental. The 2,000-pound neon sign hasn’t climbed the hotel — a Miami twist to the New York ball drop — the past three years because of COVID-19 and other issues. This week, Big Orange creator Steve “Mr. Neon” Carpenter told n…

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