Dear Eric:

When my wife and I updated our wills, she designated a diamond tennis bracelet and diamond stud earrings to her niece (she had no biological children of her own). Later that month my wife was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer to which she would succumb 19 months later. My daughter (my wife’s stepdaughter) is a radiation oncologist and became our daily advocate as we navigated the byzantine world of cancer treatment.

Shortly after my wife’s diagnosis, her niece became engaged and it was my wife’s one wish that she live long enough that we could attend her niece’s wedding, which we did. At no time during my wife’s illness did the niece reach out to her aunt, that I know of, other than to visit her during her final two weeks with her parents, looking bored the whole time.

That ye

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