Chapter 1: The Will
“‘And to my son, I leave the sum of one dollar and the contents of the garage. That being what he’s worth.’” The lawyer put his glasses on his desk and rubbed his eyes. “I’m sorry, Ted, but that’s what he made me write.”
My sister Grace, sitting between me and her husband Robert, was halfway between elated beyond measure for herself and sad for me. She wasn’t a bad person, but she had certainly done a good job of sucking up to the old man and she knew it. Besides, she was pretty as a penny, blond and blue-eyed and only a few pounds overweight, straight, and had popped out three grandchildren for him. It was no big surprise that he had left her the bulk of his estate, which included his house, the house we had both grown up in.
Next to her I wasn’t much, with my red-b
