Well I tried everything I could and there's just no way to progress in my Pirate's wife quest, even in plain vanilla and no matter how much I try to work around it by save editing or whatever. The next character in the chain doesn't recognize the quest item even though it's in the log.
Fact my inventory was full when I tried to take the memento clearly broke something and I have no reasonably recent backup to compare my save to, plus the questgiver is gone/invisible. At least if it comes up again my issue might be helpful to someone even though I have no fix.

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@peak osprey
