Reply #21: Well, I don't generally hang out with a lot of very wealthy people, but...

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there is a little old man who lives in a nearby city who has lots and lots of money.

He's very well known in that city for the fact that he and his late wife donated a million dollars or more over the years to the local Boys & Girls Club, in addition to many other causes. In a way, one could say that the Boys & Girls Club (in that city) exists because of him.

He is unassuming...blends right in with the rest of the city inhabitants...lives in a regular little house, and drives a car that nobody would suspect belongs to a man with his money. The only concession to his wealth he ever makes is when he takes one of his trips to one of the casinos in CT, or maybe Atlantic City...then he hires a limo. Other than that...he's just a regular guy with lots of money.

If he ever gets anything for "free" from local businesses, etc., it's because residents do it willingly, knowing how much he's done for others in his long life.