“Plot 11-B, beside my mother,” I finished. The room went completely still. I held up the cemetery record showing that Dad had purchased the adjoining plot in 1996 and placed the burial rights in my name. Glenda immediately insisted Dad had changed his mind, but when I asked for anything in writing showing that, she had nothing. What she did have was a newly purchased plot beside her own—and an authorization form she had prepared with my name already typed onto it.
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