Not to me and Christopher.

To me, by name, in a will he had redrafted eleven months before he died, and that is a fact that sat in the middle of my marriage like a piece of furniture nobody would mention.

I have thought a great deal about whether my father knew something.

I asked his attorney in 2024 and he said no, that Walter had never said one word against my husband, and that the will was ordinary estate planning by a man who had bought a wreck for eleven thousand dollars and had watched it become worth six hundred and forty.

But he did say one thing.