The leather chair swallowed me whole.
In the hushed oak-paneled room of the estate lawyer’s office, sunlight fell in sharp rectangles across the floor, illuminating dust motes dancing like forgotten memories. I sat perfectly still as a man I’d never met parsed my mother’s life into sterile clauses and numbered bequests.
To Robert, the marital home.
To Robert, the vehicle.
To Robert and Lila, the liquid assets.
Each sentence landed like a stone in my chest.
Then came mine.
To my daughter, Eleanor: one hand-knitted shawl.
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