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Robin Abcarian: What is kipple, and how did it take over my life?

One popular destination for the possessions we accumulate over a lifetime?

It's coming up on two years since my father died at age 91. I miss him terribly, of course, but his death left me with a personal struggle I had not anticipated.

While you might understandably think his death left a void in my life, it did quite the opposite.

His death left me with so … much … stuff. He'd lived in the same house for more than 30 years, and even though he'd engaged in some half-hearted — a decluttering aimed at easing burdens on one's survivors — what he did, mostly,

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