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Ten days after my son finally told me he had gotten married, his new wife called and said, “We’ll need your Vermont lake house for three weeks. Stock the refrigerator and mail us the keys.” I replied, “I’ll think about it.” Then I called my attorney. His first question was, “Has your son mentioned your will lately?” Twenty minutes later, I was pulling an old estate folder out of my desk drawer with both hands shaking. The call had come through at 7:14 p.m. on a Thursday. I was standing at my kitchen counter slicing an apple for dinner, still trying to understand why my only son had waited three weeks to tell me he had a wife, when the woman I had never met began explaining which bedroom they wanted and what groceries I should have waiting for them.

Ten days after my son finally told me he had gotten married, his new wife called and said, “We’ll need your Vermont lake house for...
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