The sole residuary beneficiary under the will is Richard.

Eleven months, two lawyers, a misdemeanour conviction, a probate court, a police report, an Adult Protective Services file, and four hundred and nine dollars.

Part Forty-Two: Forty-Two Thousand

The figure in Dean Hollifield’s letter was real and it was not an estate debt.

It was my father’s.

I know the composition of it because Susan told me in the following October, in my own kitchen, over about an hour, without my asking.

An equipment loan on a 2019 asphalt distributor truck — nineteen thousand four hundred outstanding, two payments behind.