My stepmother called and told me, “You’re banned from the family beach house. I changed every lock.” She sounded almost delighted. I simply replied, “Thanks for the update.” What she didn’t know was that my mom had placed the house in a private trust under my name before she passed away.
lost interest years ago. She said you never visited because you didn’t care.”
The pain that hit me was clean and immediate. Not because he believed Diana—that had become its own sad constant—but because some part of him had found it easy to believe I would simply stop caring about the one place my mother had loved most.
