The shrimp platter left Jessica’s hands before I understood she meant to throw it.
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Chapter 24 - JESSICA AND DAVID’S LAST YEARS
Jessica died first.
Heart disease.
No mystery.
No poison.
No last conspiracy.
Her estate paid remaining restitution.
She left Olivia pearl earrings.
Megan a cookbook.
Megan laughed:
“She threw food and left me recipes?”
Dark humor.
She kept the cookbook.
Objects are not guilty.
David died four years later at eighty-seven.
He left no final controlling trust.
By then professional fiduciaries had stripped most of those powers from personal estates.
Good.
He left Michael his watch.
Olivia old hotel postcards.
Megan a fountain pen.
Me:
nothing.
I preferred that.
The executor found one unsent note.
Emily was right that I confused being needed with being entitled to decide.
I read it once.
May you like
Then archived it with legal papers.
No shrine.
