By the time Grandpa passed, I thought I already knew my place in the family. But what happened after the will was read made me realize I had been wrong all along.
My name is Angelica. I’m 25—the youngest of five.
After our parents died in a car accident, it was just us and Grandpa. One man, five kids, and a small house filled with more love than space.
Every morning at 5 a.m., I’d hear him in the kitchen—the hum of the coffee maker, the snap of his old metal lunchbox closing.
My siblings couldn’t wait to leave. One by one, they moved away—Matthew, Jake, Kirk, then Jessica. New cities, new lives.
They never looked back.
But I stayed.
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