Toss mom’s samovar? Dad’s chess set? I can’t bear to part with them.

Katie Roiphe is the director of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism Program at New York University and the author, most recently, of “The Power Notebooks.” As your parents age, a seemingly trivial but oddly fraught question arises: What are you going to do with their stuff? When my mother downsize...

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