My parents’ death didn’t hit me all at once. It came in pieces—first the phone call, then the lawyer’s voice, then the cold silence afterward. I was in my cramped Brooklyn studio, lighting a cheap candle on a cheaper cake, when my phone rang. I answered expecting a condolence. Instead, I got the will. My younger sister, Savannah, walked away with the $750,000 Westchester mansion, the bank accounts, and everything shiny enough to brag about. I was left with a rotting cabin on a forgotten patch of land in Alaska. A place I’d only known through foggy childhood memories and a few summer trips with my grandfather. The lawyer’s tone was clipped and clinical, as if reading out a traffic report instead of rearranging the fault lines of my life….CONTINUE READING IN BELOW
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