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at this moment I am rather overwhelmed with the task of trying to settle my mother's affairs which have been deplorably mismanaged for the past 10-20 years until there is nothing left but mortgaged property with much to pay debts and that cannot be sold until the debts are paid off so there we are -- banks will not give a cent on any mortgage at present. After the shape of the painting had been changed we might