Comprehensive Consumer Guide on Auto Leasing. 26. What happens if I die during the lease term? Generally, this event qualifies as a default. Your lease terminates early, and your estate is held responsible for any early termination charge. Some lessors may allow your spouse or another party to assume the lease. Emphasis mine.
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Wily Kenyans… We live in the age of plastic doodads and gadgets. Face it, you probably don’t have a single wooden item anywhere on your desk top right now. And, we think that’s a shame. Safaripod!
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Inching forward.
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Sorting through holiday pictures, found this one. Little work trucks in big Kyoto intersection.
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A light drizzle all day. In fact, there’s been a light drizzle everyday but one since we’ve been here. On that day, all the balconies of all the apartments fluttered with clothing hung out to dry. They don’t like dryer-dried laundry here. 10:00 am: Tokyo Central Market. We bought souvenirs. My friend bought a couple...
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When you’re at the famous temple in Kyoto* — the one carved into the edge of a forest that clings like a low cloud of green to the mountains forming the city’s western border — and you hear a child, one of the thousands of school-children all dressed in their sharp school uniforms who...
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