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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MacMorrighan, post: 260444, member: 5119&quot;]Back when my folks were still married my Great Aunt gave my Mom the Family China to keep, but rather than take it home (Dad&#039;s eyes would have lit up with dollar signs and probably would have sold them!) Mom took them to her mother for safekeeping.&nbsp; It was the Franciscan Apple dinnerware pattern from 1940!&nbsp; (Google it for pix.)&nbsp; FFW. 15 to 20 years in the early 1990s, and a few years after Grandma Julie had passed away (breast cancer, damn it!) she remembered the China.&nbsp; When she went looking for them where she had put them and they were gone!&nbsp; Grandma never would have sold them, but someone in the family must have taken them.&nbsp; But, several aunts and uncles spread the word to help me find them recently.&nbsp; Sadly, after my Great Aunt passed away--the one who gave Mom the family china--Dad had an auction to sell off all of her things, including the family silver, which my Great Aunt kept with a note stating she wanted me to have it.&nbsp; (I was very close to my Great Aunt.)&nbsp; But, Dad auctioned it off anyway, without my knowledge.&nbsp; At the time, it really hurt my feelings that it seemed that Dad and his wife wouldn&#039;t let me into Aunt Liz&#039;s house.&nbsp; They would only open the door a crack to speak to me.&nbsp; Be sure that i love my family fiercely, but I was still hurt.&nbsp; My brother doesn&#039;t understand.&nbsp; But, as long as I could remember I imagined that I would inherit some of her belongings, which I would break out for family dinners that I&#039;d wanted to host.&nbsp; I would have cared for the items and thought of Great Aunt Liz whenever I used them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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