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PayPal Letter To Deceased Customer: 'You Should Read This Notice Carefully'

The online credit company wrote to a British woman who had died of cancer, saying her death was a breach of contract. It has since apologized, cleared the debt and pledged to review its processes.

Lindsay met a man named Howard on a dating site, fell in love, got married and added Durdle to her name.

Howard said they lived happily for a decade until she got sick — breast cancer — twice. She struggled. It spread. And she died on May 31.

On Tuesday of

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