The federal court has formally recognized the validity of your father’s handwritten instructions and the DNA confirmation drawn from the state archives.

There is no longer any legal question, anywhere, about who you are.

The patents for the Vance Energy frameworks, the ones that were stolen from him twenty-two years ago, have been fully restored to the estate.

And the legal challenge that the surviving members of the old board mounted against you, their last attempt to hold on to what they took, has been dismissed with prejudice.”

I knew enough to understand those last two words.