dual personalities

I do love the Antiques Roadshow! Some people may like the treasure-hunt aspect of it, the maybe-I’ll-find-something-in-my-attic-and-I-can-retire quality of the show. But for me, it is wonderful to be reminded that other people value and have saved their family “heirlooms”. Frequently people say, when told the value of their “heirloom”, that it is not important since they will never sell it. That is a good thing.

What is an heirloom anyway? It is “a piece of property that descends to the heir as an inseparable part of an inheritance of real property.” Inseparable being the operative term.