family with a clarity I didn’t fully appreciate until I read his notebook on the edge of a bed in a house he’d built in secret.
Thomas was a quiet, practical man. He’d made his money carefully, over decades, and he had no use for flash. And in his last years, dying, he did something I only understood afterward: he watched his family very closely, and he made his will a test disguised as an inheritance.He saw what I’d been too close and too loving to admit. He saw
