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I thought I might have been listed in my aunt's will with some small remembrance (not any financial gift). We have no other close relatives--she was widowed and never had children. She used to write to me until we fell out of touch. But I know she moved from Florida to New Jersey, where she was in a nursing home. I heard that she died in 1998. Can state records--like her will--be looked at by a computer novice like me? It has haunted me for years that she died and I don't know her last wishes.--Name withheld, Castle Rock, Colo.

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