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An Unfading Inheritance
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hen I turned thirty-five my mother gave me a treasured family heirloom: a gold diamond ring that had belonged to my great-great-grandfather. From the Greek island where he was born, my ancestor had brought it to Australia where I was born decades later. It means a lot to me to wear his ring, a ring that’s now been handed down through five generations. I feel intimately connected to my family history through it. But when I wear my great-great-grandfather’s ring, it also reminds me of his death. And the death 21
