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My mother raised her glass at the family reunion and announced, “We sold Grandpa’s six properties and split the money. Consider it settled.” Everyone around the table started cheering. I looked at her and said, “Interesting.” Thirty seconds later, my phone rang on speaker. The title company representative said, “Ma’am, the buyers just discovered your family doesn’t legally own any of those properties.” My mother’s smile vanished. Then her lawyer started calling over and over. It happened at 2:14 p.m. on a Sunday. I was sitting beneath a white backyard tent with thirty relatives eating barbecue and congratulating each other when I realized my family had just publicly celebrated selling something they had never owned.

My mother raised her glass at the family reunion and announced, “We sold Grandpa’s six properties and split the money. Consider it settled.” Everyone around...
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