For the rather exquisite diamond-tufted leather sofa, one ending was another new beginning.
Although tonight, amid hundreds of bustling bodies at the Pacific Auction Company in Longmont, the details of this sofa’s first life remain shrouded.
All we know is that something fell apart. This is a divorce auction.
We also can infer — based on the mahogany dining set with a matching China cabinet across the room and the silk-upholstered, carved chairs — that the doctor who originally bought this leather couch must have had an impressive house.
And now its contents can be anyone’s, bids starting at $0.
When a (dissolved) couple cannot agree on how to divide up their goodies, increasingly more often, they come here. A lengthy process of deciding who gets what can make a divorce even more stressful and complicated, advocates say.
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