         Money can indeed solve certain problems (those that are connected to its lack), but families with plenty of money can also be quite troubled and confused and hurt. Money is such a vexing matter to so many of us in a world so sensitive to both its presence and absence that it can generate its own kind of difficulties for people who may seem to have everything, but who know full well what they don't have, or yearn to have more plentifully: affection, self-respect, membership in a community of neighbors or colleagues at work, those bonds that are priceless.
- Robert Coles, author of Children of Crisis series from the foreword to The Legacy of Inherited Wealth |
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The Inheritor's Inner Landscape:
How Heirs Feel
I N T R O D U C T I O N
Andrea Sparrow's earliest impressions of wealth were formed on summer visits to her grandparents' estate in Pennsylvania. The house was vast. It had an elevator, an enormous playroom with a built-in movie screen, a long dining-room table with a buzzer to summon the maids, thirteen bathrooms, and a chauffeur on duty. More important, though, it was a home filled with humanity and intimacy.
Andrea fondly recalls the warm atmosphere her beloved grandmother created in this magical place: "Gram was a really remarkable woman. She was so kind and nonjudgmental and interested in people. Even when I was a hippie and I would visit with my first husband, the Berkeley radical, and I was in my long skirts and my turquoise jewelry - you know, even then, I was her granddaughter. She would never have thought to treat me differently from all her other grandchildren. She had such good manners. Many, many people loved her."
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