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Ninety years later, that same tree remains standing strong – despite the devastating ash dieback disease – hard up against a tenement on the city’s Argyle Street.

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A case on Nantucket is just the latest example of the affluent proving F. Scott Fitzgerald’s adage about the very rich: They are different from you and me.