Dear Edith: Here's a different kind of question for you. When my father died recently, we went through some family papers and discovered that my great-grandfather had hidden some valuable Civil War pistols in his home. This is a house our family sold a few years ago.

I don't know if the guns are still there, but they might be; it was a good hiding place. Or, maybe the new owners found them already (if they remodeled, for instance). We believe the pistols are worth a great deal of money ...

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