My Wife Died Holding a Black Button From My Brother’s Jacket—Then Her Hidden Ledger Led Me to a $41,200 Transfer

“Yes.”

She held out the small key.

“I thought you were done carrying keys.”

“I am.”

“Then why keep this?”

I looked at the drawer.

“Because I chose to.”

There was a difference between a key imposed on me and a key I decided to keep.