She Planned My Funeral to Seal the Inheritance — She Didn’t Expect Me to Open the Casket

“You were ten. Very determined.”

“You told me I couldn’t knock down the wall between my room and the hallway because it was holding up everything above it,” I said. “You said, ‘You can’t remove what keeps the roof from falling, Diane.’”

“You called it tyrannical maternal overreach,” she said, eyes twinkling.

“I’d just learned the word ‘tyrannical,’” continue reading …