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About 10 years ago my father died which was sad. Then I inherited an old farm house from him. It was my childhood home and even though the place was falling apart I loved it because I felt so comfortable there. Then about 10 months after i moved in, the tenant I was renting to left a cigarette burning and burned the whole place to the ground. That was very sad, a year of some very hard losses.
The upside to this whole thing was the insurance, the only bill I ever paid on time, paid twice what the house was worth on the open market. So although it was a very distressful year, it ended up being the best financial year of my life.
Not that any amount of money makes up for the loss of a loved one.
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