Word: footstools
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...traveled to the family home to start to divide the family heirlooms. Their brother Harry was in touch by phone before making the trip south from Washington. The brothers asked Harry what he wanted from the house. He named a few things. Then his wife Helen remembered the footstool, the homely one with fringe running along the bottom...
...footstool was something we had given to her years ago, and I just really wanted it back," Helen explains. "And it wasn't necessarily something we needed or would even use, but once people started claiming things, I started worrying about what our kids might get to inherit from that side of the family. And then it hit me--I realized that I was willing to fight over a footstool. It was pretty embarrassing." Her husband let the footstool go to a niece...
...which (thank God) still worked. But could the TV Guide have been wrong? It seemed inconceivable, but I wouldn't relax until I saw the opening title. I was the only one up in the house. I turned off all the lights and sat there waiting on a footstool right in front...