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When inherited hobbies carry different meanings

My brother and I inherited our dad's model train collection and we meet every month to work on the layout but he wants to research historical accuracy for every piece and I just want to make the trains run and have fun like we did when we were kids visiting dad's basement.

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The weight of legacy has split into competing visions of honor - through scholarship or through joy.

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