Inheritance Trouble

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What's the car worth?
A brother?
What of the china or mother's quilt?
A sister or cousin?
And that painting?
"Got just the place for it!"
But it'll never look as "at home" on your wall as in it's original place.
That diamond is just a cold stone that seems to mirror your heart.
Grandma's Apple Cake is not the same either, though I followed the recipe.

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Schiplady said…
Jill:This is one of your posts that I can personally relate to. When Alzheimers dictated that my mother could no longer live at home with my father, it fell to me as an only child, to go through their home and decide what to keep and what to let go. As I have two sons who were both close by at that time, they were able to take whatever keepsakes they wanted that belonged to their grandparents. My father moved in with me and after his passing we repeated the same process. I have friends with horror stories of dividing "possessions" after the death of one or more parents. I am not one who keeps things so hopefully at my demise my boys will be spared the ordeal of dividing "things". Lois
4 May 2010 at 03:13
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