• Advice

    Posted on January 21st, 2010

    Written by Judy

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    Hurt Feelings: Should I Vent?

    Dear Judy,
    I’m emailing you because when my sister died last year, she left a pair of chandelier earrings (lots of little diamonds) and two very beautiful 19th century chairs in her Will to her only daughter.
    Those chandelier earrings belonged to our mother, and when my sister was dying (a long process…) she had always said she’d leave them to me. [...]

  • Advice

    Posted on October 1st, 2008

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    The $4,000 Diamond Earrings Should Have Been Left to Me!

    Dear Judy,
    Six years ago, when my best friend and I were in our late 20’s, she noticed a pair of diamond-and-seed pearl pendant earrings in my jewelry box, and tried them on. They were really beautiful, appraised at $4,000, but I told her to keep them. I know that sounds odd, especially since they were left [...]