Stephanie Spent Nineteen Thousand Dollars on a Wedding and Changed Her Will

for the sound of a stapler clicking in the background and the distant rumble of traffic on the street outside.

The clerk slid a single warm sheet of paper across the counter, the state seal stamped in blue at the top.

I looked down at the section labeled grantees, expecting to see Ethan and Ashley listed as the sole buyers of the three-bedroom home.

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