The first line made my hands shake. “Nadine, I was homeless, but I was never completely penniless.” Douglas explained that after losing his wife and son years earlier, he had stopped caring about possessions, housing, or even himself. He had walked away from almost everything, but a modest inheritance and retirement account remained untouched. Several relatives knew about the money, yet Douglas wrote that they only appeared whenever they believed he might finally give them access to it.
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