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While Setting Up Thanksgiving, They Claimed My House — The HOA President Had Different News... The cranberry sauce splattered across my granite countertop as Mom's declaration hit like a slap. I'd been arranging the Thanksgiving spread in my custom kitchen—the one I'd designed myself—when she dropped her bombshell. "This house should go to someone who deserves it," she repeated, gesturing around my 4,200-square-foot home with obvious disdain. "Emma, you're thirty-one and single. What do you need all this space for?" My brother Marcus leaned against my imported Italian marble island, nodding enthusiastically. At twenty-eight, he still lived in Mom and Dad's basement, bouncing between part-time jobs and claiming he was "finding himself." His latest venture—selling essential oils through social media—had lasted exactly three months. "Mom's right," Marcus said, helping himself to the artisanal cheese I'd bought for appetizers.