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  NANTUCKET - Out by the rotary, where Lower Orange Street gives way to Milestone Road and its rolling route past the moors to Siasconset, it appears as if the roundabout roads may yet turn back time and lead to Nantucket as it has so long been, soft and subtle at the eastern edge of America.