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Where did Adaline's money come from?


Did I miss something? Did she get a big payoff when her husband died on the Golden Gate Bridge? It takes a lot of money to be able to just up and leave a job and home and start over again. Plus all of her homes were pretty big and nice, which in SF is very expensive. She didn't make that kind of money being a librarian. There was the one scene at the bank when she had a flashback that alluded to her making some money off of Xerox stock, but she'd already been around awhile by then.

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I was under the impression that she came from money. Her accident happened on her way to her parents' beach house. Then the Xerox stock. And she probably got some inheritance after her husband was killed. She also could have owned the apartment building she lived in, since it was in Chinatown and it made no other sense for her to live there with those neighbors. A beautiful white woman living in that apartment would call a lot of attention to her. So my guess is that she owned it.

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Or possibly Social Security?

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