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Total Loss: A Column About Inventorying Other People’s Tragedies
Stef Willen works for the leading West Coast natural disaster company. Her thorough inventory of everything in a burned-down home or business helps owners receive fair settlements from their insurance company. She planned on doing it for a couple of months. Then a couple more. Then maybe long enough to write a book about it. Now it’s what she does, and she gets a decent paycheck if someone’s charred dwelling is at least 3,500 square feet. If they are a clinical hoarder, she doesn’t have to work for the rest of the month.
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January 28, 2011Total Loss: A Column About Inventorying Other People’s Tragedies: Column 7: Collapsible Throne
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January 12, 2011Total Loss: A Column About Inventorying Other People’s Tragedies: Column 6: Disaster Happens (Hopefully Someplace Cool I’ve Never Been To)
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December 14, 2010Total Loss: A Column About Inventorying Other People’s Tragedies: Column 5: I Left My Rolex Next to My Vat of Cheez Whiz
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November 23, 2010Total Loss: A Column About Inventorying Other People’s Tragedies: Column 4: The Right to Bare Arms and Pretty Much Everything Else
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November 5, 2010Total Loss: A Column About Inventorying Other People’s Tragedies: Column 3: I Think I Found Your Cat
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October 20, 2010Total Loss: A Column About Inventorying Other People’s Tragedies: Column 2: All In a Day’s Tragedy
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October 4, 2010Total Loss: A Column About Inventorying Other People’s Tragedies: Column 1: I Have a Sneaking Suspicion You Burnt Your Own House Down, Or Maybe You Just Give Me the Creeps
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