Thanks for sharing this. I'm sorry you had this difficult experience. I don't have any old pictures anymore. I shredded them all years ago. (I also ripped up & threw away my diplomas & other stuff like that.) I still have an oriental vase I've always loved that belonged to my maternal grandmother along with several of her oil paintings... oh... & a very old poetry book that belonged to her as well. But that's it. Otherwise everything's gone. I don't miss any of it...