After burying his wife of fifty-six years, Walter watched his three adult children shift almost immediately from grief to greed, asking about the will, the house, and the inheritance instead of checking on his wellbeing. When he impulsively spent a large portion of the family savings on the luxury car he and Colleen had always dreamed of but never allowed themselves, his children stormed into his home accusing him of recklessness and squandering what they considered rightfully theirs.

As his son shouted that their mother would never have approved, Walter walked calmly to a cabinet and retrieved something he’d hidden since the funeral. Placing it on the table in front of his stunned children, he demanded they explain exactly what they had done beside their mother’s coffin, a moment none of them expected to be confronted with again.