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[quote=Anonymous]Just an anecdote.  My mother-in-law passed away in 2018 at the age of 87.  When we were cleaning out her home, we found several old bibles.  From information that was hand-written in the bible and from my wife's sister, we determined that one was my wife's grandmother's, and two were from older generations (one was well over 100 years old).  My wife and her aunt split the three bibles with the understanding that my wife would get them when her aunt passed.  My wife did mention that when she was younger, she probably wouldn't have cared, but in recent years, we've returned to the church after some years apart (when we had children, we moved and found a church that was more in line with our beliefs and we wanted our children raised in that tradition).  My wife said she was glad her mother kept those bibles and she valued them, wherease in her teens, 20's and 30's, she wouldn't have cared or wanted them.

A bible is not a very large object and it doesn't take up a huge amount of storage space.  I would put it on a bookshelf and check in again with your daughter when she is older or if/when she has children.  Her attitude may be different than it is now.  It can't hurt to hold on to it and it can definitely be an unrecoverable loss if you get rid of it.[/quote]

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