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I Walked Into My Own Estate Sale — My Family Was Selling Everything I Owned

I came home on a Thursday afternoon in October to find strangers walking out of my house carrying my furniture. A woman I had never seen before was loading my grandfather's oak writing desk into the back of a minivan. A younger man held the brass lamp from my study, the one my late wife had given me on our twentieth anniversary. He was wrapping it carefully in newspaper, treating it with more respect than I had seen from anyone in that house in months. I stood at the end of the driveway with my overnight bag in one hand and discharge papers from the hospital folded in my coat pocket. The minivan pulled away. The man with the lamp nodded at me as he passed, perhaps thinking I was another buyer arriving late. The front door stood wide open. A hand-lettered sign taped to the mailbox read "Estate Sale Today Only."