Once, as we were leaving the hospital, she took my hand and said to me in a soft voice:

Then I handed them a copy of the letter and the deeds.

The daughter was the first to go pale.

“This can’t be legal.”

“Yes, it is,” I said with a calmness I didn’t know I had. “Your mother had everything notarized three months ago. I went with her.”

It was true.

One afternoon she had asked me to take her to see “a lawyer” downtown. I thought it was just some routine paperwork.

It wasn’t.

The eldest son clenched his teeth.

“You manipulated a sick old woman.”

My blood boiled, but before I could respond, the neighbor across the street spoke from the doorway with a firm voice:

“The only thing that young man did was take care of her when none of you bothered to come see her.”

A heavy silence filled the room.

Doña Carmen’s children understood they had little to do there.

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