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A cat lover tried to leave a fortune to her town's strays. It almost didn't work out

When Barbara Thorpe died in 2002, she left almost all of her money — $200,000 — to benefit the cats of her hometown, Dixfield, Maine. But that decision turned into a huge legal battle.

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