You will let them.
You will tell yourself you enjoy it.
Some of the time, you will.
Some of the time, you won’t.
Please learn the difference.
I pressed the page to my chest.
How had he known?
Or perhaps the better question was:
How had I not?
There was another page.
This one was typed.
At the top:
CAPE MAY OPTIONS
Robert had listed three possibilities.
Keep the house privately.
Rent it seasonally and use the income for travel or expenses.
Sell it and divide nothing unless I chose to.
Next to the third option, he had handwritten:
The children have inheritances elsewhere. Margaret owes no one this house.
I sat very still.
Beneath the letter were copies of financial statements I had never seen.
One account in particular caught my attention.
A modest investment account.
Not enormous, but substantial.
The beneficiary line showed my name.
Below it was a note.
