My Mother Smiled While My Sister Gave Away My Home, Until I Reminded Them Whose Name Was on It

the kind of thing that looks legitimate precisely because someone wanted it to. Its effect, stripped of the language, was to add my mother and my sister to the deed of my house. In exchange, a recital near the bottom noted that the outstanding private mortgage of eighty-five thousand dollars would be considered satisfied and released.

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