At My 30th Birthday Dinner, My Mom Said I Was Adopted for a Tax Break

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“Maintained it?” I tilted my head. “Or redecorated it like it was already yours?”

Someone in the back of the room stifled a laugh.

“The will includes a personal statement,” I continued, and read aloud from the document: “‘I make this decision because Myra is the only person in this family who loved me for myself, not for what I owned.’”

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