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When you inherit someone's unfinished creative work

I found my dad's unfinished novel in his desk after the funeral and I don't know if I should try to complete it or if that would be violating something sacred.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to preserve memory conflicts with the fear of overstepping into someone else's creative soul.

Ideas that help explain it
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