When the attorney finished reading Grandmother Elena’s will, the silence in the conference room was heavy with disappointment and barely concealed resentment. The mahogany table was scattered with legal documents that had just redistributed a lifetime of accumulated wealth among family members who had spent decades calculating their expected inheritance shares. My cousins received the… 
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