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The Local Museum Discovers Its Collection Is a Liability
Small museums spent a century saying yes to donations. The storage, conservation and cataloguing bills arrived later, attached to objects nobody can legally throw away.
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The Cemetery Runs on a Fund That Stopped Working
A cemetery sells plots once and maintains them forever, funded by a trust whose income was supposed to cover the mowing. Cremation broke the first half of that arrangement and arithmetic broke the second.