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Carefully, I tear the flap open.
Inside is a letter.
It’s from my mother.
Claire,
I’m really sorry to do this to you. I know you will not understand, but I am certain I cannot face my life without him. I have left everything I had to follow him in life and I now choose to do so in death.
Enclosed you will find something to make your life easier. Please, Claire, believe that we are now both happy, free to love one another the way we believe is right and true.
Goodbye,
Mom
Inside, a day too late, is everything I went to that godawful cabin in search for—fifteen billion dollars in offshore accounts.
I fall to the floor and cry.
