Kat, I can relate very much to your family loss.

My father owned a farm outside Kitchener many years ago. The city purchased it from him to build a subdivision.
I know my dad was not too emotionally stable at times, but the sale of his farm broke him emotionally and he was never the same again.
That farm represented who my dad was I guess.
He mourned the loss until the day he died.

Bonnie