The old adage that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure has never been truer than for a local rag-and-bone man who earned such a good living that he was able to buy four properties and raise 11 children.
Sadly, his inspiring tale also illustrates another, sadder truth: Nothing splits a family faster and with such rancour as a fight over money.
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