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What to do with unknown people in a deceased loved one's photographs

I'm executor of my uncle's estate and I found a box of photographs of people I don't recognize and I don't know what to do with other people's memories.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The dead leave behind relationships we never knew existed, creating obligations to strangers through inherited intimacy.

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