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REUNITED years after 80

At the age of 101, a woman was over the moon when a painting lost for eight decades was returned. From the Netherlands, Charlotte Bischoff van Heemskerck remembers the by Caspar Netscher from her childhood home. But when her dad, Joan, was wanted by the, about being reunited with the beloved painting after 80 years. Enjoying the piece for six months, she then decided to auction it, sharing the $77,000 between her grandkids, nieces and nephews.

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