Reply #31: It happened with my great-uncle

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Most everything was in his partner's name, including the house. When his partner of close to 50 years died my uncle was kicked out of the house and lost most of his stuff. He was in the process of moving from his apartment to my parent's house (they used to have a small cottage on the back part of the lot that my dad used as his studio) when my uncle died. I never knew him. He died when I was an infant but I grew up hearing the stories of how my uncle got screwed and his partner's relatives got greedy.

btw, my uncle's homosexuality was never openly discussed until about twenty years ago. His partner was always referred to as "the roommate" or "his roommate" but they had been together since college.

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