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Gifts wrapped in red shiny paper with lavish gold lame ribbon surround the 10-foot-high Christmas tree and spill out onto the floor. A grouping of white poinsettia plants at the base of the staircase adds to the opulence of the entryway.

Excerpted from A Nantucket Christmas by Leslie Linsley.

on 11/21/05