The Random Tuesday Test: Caregiving, Inheritance, and What Family Really Owes

the counter, arms crossed.

“I’m not trying to be a jerk,” he said, which is always how people start right before they are a jerk.

“I just think,” he continued, “Mom wouldn’t want us divided.”

I almost laughed. Because he didn’t mean divided emotionally.

He meant divided financially.

“She did want us divided,” I said quietly. “That’s literally what she did.continue reading …