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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 613248, member: 5833"]Only if someone needs this last one to complete the set.</p><p><br /></p><p>As my dad's sole heir, some of the stuff I had to deal with was all the 'collector's' plates accumulated by his second wife, who had died more than a decade before, among them two different, incomplete Gone with the Wind series sets. My stepmother had four children from her first marriage who were rarely, if ever, in touch with her, none of whom attended her memorial service. Nonetheless, it was rather a relief when one of the daughters chanced to be in from out of state (for an entirely different reason) at the same time I was there and greedily wanted anything she could get her hands on. The two siblings who lived in the area had already been by to pick up photo albums I had let them know I had found & also selected a few other things as mementos, giving a pass to everything else that had been their mother's, so felt free to let this daughter take what she wanted. When she started demanding where this or that item was, I had to sternly remind her that legally it all belonged to me. As the legal owner, I was quite glad to get the piles of 'collectibles' <i><b>off</b></i> my plate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 613248, member: 5833"]Only if someone needs this last one to complete the set. As my dad's sole heir, some of the stuff I had to deal with was all the 'collector's' plates accumulated by his second wife, who had died more than a decade before, among them two different, incomplete Gone with the Wind series sets. My stepmother had four children from her first marriage who were rarely, if ever, in touch with her, none of whom attended her memorial service. Nonetheless, it was rather a relief when one of the daughters chanced to be in from out of state (for an entirely different reason) at the same time I was there and greedily wanted anything she could get her hands on. The two siblings who lived in the area had already been by to pick up photo albums I had let them know I had found & also selected a few other things as mementos, giving a pass to everything else that had been their mother's, so felt free to let this daughter take what she wanted. When she started demanding where this or that item was, I had to sternly remind her that legally it all belonged to me. As the legal owner, I was quite glad to get the piles of 'collectibles' [I][B]off[/B][/I] my plate.[/QUOTE]
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