I married a man 41 years older than me because of his fortune — after his funeral, his lawyer handed me a box and said, “He made sure you got exactly

the family home to them.

I never knew that I had told his lawyer that conversation.

Then I got to the last paragraph.

“My children will inherit my businesses, my investments and the house in which they grew up. You never tried to take those things away from them.”

Rebecca’s smile disappearedFinally, the lawyer spoke.

“Richard bought something six months before he got sick.”

He placed a document in front of me.

It was the writing of a small house by the lake.

I recognized the address immediately.

Richard and