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How siblings navigate inherited sacred spaces

My brother and I inherited our grandmother's house and we can't decide whether to keep her prayer room intact or convert it to something else and it's become this huge fight about honoring the past versus moving forward. We both loved her but we have completely different relationships to her faith.

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The ancestors' devotion becomes the descendants' dilemma, as love for the departed wars with the needs of the living.

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