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When inherited property becomes about unresolved grief

My brother and I inherited our dad's house together and we both have completely different ideas about what to do with it — he wants to sell and I want to keep it in the family, but really we're both just processing dad's death differently and using the house as a way to avoid talking about that. Every conversation about the practical stuff turns into an argument about everything else.

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