My Parents Sold the 80 Acres Grandpa Promised Us to Pay for My Sister’s Wedding

She mailed us each a copy. With a letter on her stationery saying she was sorry for our loss, and that

she was sorry the copy came too late to matter.

I opened mine in my apartment, sitting at the kitchen table.Shop Kitchenware

It was simple. Four pages. Most of it was about his savings account and his pickup and who got his

guns.

But on page two, it said:

I give my farm real estate, consisting of eighty acres in Section 14, Lenox Township, Taylor County,

Iowa, to my granddaughters, Jessica Ann Morgan and Brittany Lynn Morgan, in equal shares, as tenants in common.

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And then, right under that, in Grandpa’s own handwriting, in the margin, in blue ink, with an arrow

pointing to the paragraph:

The pond is the part that counts. Fish together.

I sat there at my kitchen table and read that line twenty times.Shop Kitchenware

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