‘I feel like I’m cancelling out her life’: the wrenching work of clearing out a parent’s home

From old love letters to pieces of string, our homes are stuffed with stuff. When it comes time to empty a parent’s home, sorting the junk from the memory can be overwhelming Soon after her marriage in 1952, Ellen Rogers’ mother, Fay, bought a…
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Published6 h ago (Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:00:56 GMT)
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AuthorStephanie Wood