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silverpatronus Donating Member (520 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 06:05 PM
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80. it's so strange reading all these stories about divided families...
i guess it's culture shock. everything here belongs to the family, nothing can be done with anything without a unanimous agreement and nothing 'goes' to anyone. my mum and aunts and one uncle 'own' the house since the others didn't want a 'share', and they, collectively, have left it to their children. nobody 'gets' the house, it belongs to all of us, cannot ever be sold (stipulation of my grandmother's) and has enough space for everybody to live in if we need to. my sisters and i would never bicker over our parents' possessions, there's no need, everything belongs to the house. my dad has property that will go to all of us, again with a stipulation that it cannot be sold (property is important to a family of women. if you have property, you never need to stay in a bad situation) and again 'going' to everyone. i don't get the idea that an individual needs to own an estate or part of it solely and that everything must be split up. this family has always been a collective, and everything is done collectively.
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