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Different states have different ways of reporting it, but in general, you'll search for your last name (optionally your first name as well), and you can optionally narrow it down by city. The results are usually shown with the last known mailing address, so you can tell whether it's the right person. (To find the website, just google your state's name and "unclaimed property".)

There's usually a little information about the sort of payment it is, whether the exact amount or "less than $100", and also what company owes the money. It can be anything from a refund on prepaid tolls to having been overcharged at the dentist to having forgotten to change your address with an insurance policy.

Tonight, I found a small amount for myself, my spouse, my father-in-law, and a few others, but found nearly $500 for one of my brothers-in-law! (It's 6-8 different claims, but still, money is money!)

I don't know the process for all states, but for mine, to "claim" the property, I just had to enter my info into the website (name, address, email address, SSN); then I got an email with more details about the particular claim, with a longer form for me to fill out and sign and get notarized. My "under $25" turned out to be $3.xx, so I'm not sure if it's worth taking the time to get it notarized (it certainly wouldn't be worth it if I had to pay for it), but I'm pretty sure my bank does it for free for their customers, so maybe I'll do it when I'm already there.

I meant to post this last week on her actual birthday, but forgot.

Though Anne's birthday wasn't otherwise mentioned in the novel, on her 27th birthday, Anne was likely already helping to pack up Kellynch for the move (see below), while Capt. Wentworth was condoling with Capt. Benwick, having just broken the news to him "in the first week of August" that his beloved fiancee was dead. Happy 27th birthday, Anne Elliot!

[My reasoning for the timing of it, is that the novel says, "The Crofts were to have possession at Michaelmas; and as Sir Walter proposed removing to Bath in the course of the preceding month...", which sounds like the decision itself is made no later than July, with all the activity of actually packing up the house and deciding what should stay and what should go taking place during the month of August. We are outright told that everyone left Kellynch 4 weeks before Michaelmas, since Anne spent 1 week with Lady Russell and had spent another 3 weeks with Mary by the time Michaelmas rolled around and the Crofts took possession of Kellynch.]

This is your monthly reminder to go to the pinned post, to post your Jane Eyre related art and other related merchandise as comments here : r/JaneEyre. This way, you get to show your offerings (or someone else's offerings that you especially like), without making this sub feel like a marketplace.

Any other posts of merchandise for sale will be removed without warning (fan art not for sale may be permitted). Thanks for understanding and complying!

First, here's her timeline as far as I can figure it out:

1. Around 7-8 years before the main events of the novel, Adele is born to Celine as the putative child of Mr. Rochester.
2. Around 6 months old, Mr. Rochester discovers that Celine has been dallying with a vicomte so he breaks up with her.
3. For some years, Celine keeps Adele -- long enough to teach her to dance and sing -- and then abandons her at some point.
4. Adele lives with Madame Frédéric until Mr. R takes her to England.
5. Adele is about 7-8 when she comes to England and Jane becomes her governess.

In the narrative, Adele says that she wanted to come to England with Mr. R rather than stay in France with Madame Frédéric, because she had known Mr. R longer. This has always sort of bothered me because she was only 6 m/o when he broke up with Celine over her affair, and it would seem that he would have at that time likewise had nothing more to do with Adele -- yet Adele knew him longer than she knew Mme F. This would make a rather large plot hole, and that's how I've always felt about it, since Adele couldn't possibly remember him from when she was but a few months old.

However, I've figured out a way that it can work:

Mr. R breaks up with Celine, but still takes care of Adele and visits her sometimes, only much later coming to believe that she is not his child because she looks nothing like him. By this time, however, he has been caring for Adele for years, so when he hears that Celine has run off and Adele is thrown on the mercy of strangers, he takes her to England.

Is there anything I forgot? Did others have the same question about the timeline?

For instance, Lady Susan corresponds with Mr. Mainwaring, while pretending to her relations that she is writing to his wife, yet she actually uses her best friend as a go-between.

I'm trying to figure out the logistics of it.

She said she received a letter from Mr. M, and passed it off as being from Mrs. M -- that part is clear enough. But then, when she writes him back "under cover to" Alicia, does that mean the correspondence is basically like a triangle? -- she writes a letter to Mr. M, encloses it in an envelope to Alicia (first leg), so that when Alicia gets it, she pops it back in the mail to Mr. M (second leg), and then when he writes back, he sends it directly to Lady Susan (third leg) but with her pretending it came from Mrs. M, since it's highly improper for him to be writing to her.

Or is Alicia the go-between in both ways, so that LS receives only the one letter directly from Mr. M (which she successfully passes off as from his wife), and all others go through Alicia, both ways?

And what would the sender's part of the envelope look like? -- Is it like our modern day, where there is a return address, so you can tell without opening it who it's from? If so, how would LS have been able to pass off Mr. M's letter as Mrs. M's? Or would it just have the address without the person's name, so it could come from anyone in the Mainwaring household?

Other acts of correspondence could also be used -- in various JA novels we read that people who are not engaged but their families believe they are engaged, are surprised that the ladies do not write to or receive letters from their fiancés, and vice-versa -- that some women who are secretly engaged have been corresponding with their fiancés in secret. How would this be the case? Would Mr. Secret Fiancé write to his sweetheart while pretending to be her friend, so that everyone (including the nosy postman) believed that Mary was getting a letter from Charlotte when really it was Charles? Or would he actually go through a trusted friend?

This is your monthly reminder to go to the pinned post, to post your Jane Eyre related art and other related merchandise as comments here : r/JaneEyre. This way, you get to show your offerings (or someone else's offerings that you especially like), without making this sub feel like a marketplace.

Any other posts of merchandise for sale will be removed without warning (fan art not for sale may be permitted). Thanks for understanding and complying!

This is your monthly reminder to go to the pinned post, to post your Jane Eyre related art and other related merchandise as comments here : r/JaneEyre. This way, you get to show your offerings (or someone else's offerings that you especially like), without making this sub feel like a marketplace.

Any other posts of merchandise for sale will be removed without warning (fan art not for sale may be permitted). Thanks for understanding and complying!

Mods just got notified that videos in comments will be allowed starting in about a week, but we can choose whether to allow them or not. What do you think?

First, the options are 1) no videos in comments at all; 2) only mods; 3) only mods and approved users; or 4) all users.

Personally, I like to read comments, not watch videos of people saying the equivalent of a comment. However, I would like people to be able to post relevant clips of JE movies or other videos sometimes.

A downside of "all users can post videos" is that there will undoubtedly be some spam (maybe even p*rn) videos, which is not great. However, approving individual users doesn't sound fun either. Maybe the rules will allow parameters, so I can set it up so that only people who have been a member of the subreddit for at least 6 months can post videos? If so, I'm leaning towards doing this (which would be #3 of the options).

What are your thoughts?