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t\’s not that Jeanne Weiner wanted Aunt Leonie\’s Indian Tree dishes for herself. She hadn\’t used the hand-painted china in five years — since just before her husband died — and last Passover she was on the verge of giving the entire service for 31 to her daughter Joelle Keene, who had taken charge of the family seder.

But when it came to actually giving up the china, she balked. And even though this year she is making the transfer, these dishes — more than the Thanksgiving dishes or all the furniture she gave to her daughters — call up a wave of emotion and tears.