Sofia gave a nod. “Margaret, we really believed you were aware. I’m really sorry this is how you found out.”I agree, but we must now determine what comes next.”
My sons were seated at the kitchen table across from me three days later. I told them everything.Andrew mumbled, “This can’t be real.”It is,” I responded coolly. “Your dad also told them lies. I’m restarting probate now.”We must decide what comes next.
Andrew leaped to his feet. “Mom!”I won’t defend his deception, and I won’t hold his daughter accountable. The estate will be divided three ways.
Andrew gazed at me. “After everything he did to you?””Yes,” I said. “Because I refuse to be smaller than him.”
It was finished a few weeks later.
All three of Thomas’s children and I stood at his grave, but I was at a loss for words.
It was finished a few weeks later.
He has spent half of his life with me.
I had him all to myself.
He didn’t win that. I owned it.
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