That's not a family tree we'd like to be tasked with creating.

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Ms. SYLVESTER: I really wasn't a fan of the gum tree because it was kind of a nuisance everyday, there'd be crowds of people in front of it taking photos, sticking their gum on there, and sanitary-wise, it really was not fun to look at everyday as I'm peering outside this door.

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Ms. SYLVESTER: The fact that they'd hang on to something like that, that's a tree, that's just covered in people's spit.

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The Beechwood Inn was built in 1853, while its sprawling beech tree was planted seven years later by a sea captain who'd brought it from England.

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He'd won the book in an Arbor Day poster contest for schoolkids that had coincided with a citywide tree-planting program administered by the Department of Parks and Public Property.

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Those killed included two cousins in New Jersey, ages 2 and 7, who'd huddled with their families in a tent in Parvin State Park when strong winds felled a pine tree, crushing them.

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