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When inherited spaces hold competing memories

My brother and I inherited our dad's tools and workshop and we both want to use the space but we have totally different relationships to his memory and different comfort levels with changing things, and every time we try to work it out it turns into this bigger conversation about who loved him more or understood him better.

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Physical inheritance forces the question of whose version of the dead person gets to live on in the world.

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