At the end of the year, maybe you're taking stock of some people you've lost in the last 12 months.

I've been remembering Alan Simpson, who died under a full moon in March at the age of 93.

When the moon's gotten big each month since, I've tried to take a minute to reflect on his memory.

And what I'm still carrying forward from our friendship and his wild

role in my love story with my husband. You can hear Arthur and I talk about that and get a little

weepy about Ow in a Slate Plus episode that we recorded in the spring. We've linked to that in our show

notes. But maybe you lost someone in the last year who left you with more mixed feelings that you're still unpacking.

What we inherit from people who are gone, after all, is not all rainbows, sunshine, or unexpected financial windfalls.

We talked about your inheritance stories in an episode a few years back, and it's one that people bring up to me a lot.

And so as we're in this weird period of looking back and thinking about what will carry forward, we thought we'd share it with you again.

It's an episode with lots of different stories about different kinds of families and deaths and families.

So I hope you find something comforting and resonant in here for you.

I think you can sum it up to say my family's Achilles' heel was money and the desire for money and the need for money and the belief that the one who held the money

held the power.

This is death, sex, and money.

The show from Slate about the things we think about a lot.

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I'm Anna Sale.

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