At 73, I Married My Dying High School Sweetheart as His Final Wish—After the Funeral, His Lawyer Knocked on My Door and Said, “You Walked Right Into His Trap”

Who would make medical decisions if I became ill.

Whether I had given anybody power of attorney.

At first I told myself:

Raymond had reached an age where mortality became conversation.

Then he mentioned Aunt Margaret.

Margaret had been my mother’s older sister.

She died two years earlier.

Raymond had become increasingly involved in her finances during the last years of her life.