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Old 11-11-2021, 17:38   #36
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: Where there's a Will...

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Originally Posted by dotti34 View Post
Margaret, I know the awful time you had dealing with everything after your mother passed away. That was very stressful, made so difficult when it should not have been. People can certainly show their greedy side when money and possessions are involved.

A brother and sister I know argued over the ownership of a dinner set of all things while their mother’s body was still warm – she had died on the operating table. That was the end of the siblings relationship.
Dorothy, if that had been me I would have smashed every single piece of the dinner set…..
It is so sad when families are fractured at a time when their strength is in the unity of family…but avarice and materialism gets in the way.
The best of it is, rarely can those divisions be repaired.
I know that from my point of view there are brothers that I will never speak to again.
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