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My Parents Gave My Inheritance to My Brother, They Had No Clue What Grandpa Left Me

My name is Emma, and the day I discovered what my grandfather had really left me wasn't the day of his funeral, or during some formal reading of the will—it was three years later, on an ordinary Tuesday afternoon, when I found a dusty leather journal hidden inside an antique desk that no one in my family had wanted. That journal changed everything, and looking back now, I can't help but laugh at how clueless my parents were when they decided to give my supposed inheritance to my brother Daniel without even asking me. Growing up in the small town of Mapleton, where everyone knew everyone's business, I was always "the sensible one" in the Walsh family. From the time I was little, I was the child who saved her allowance instead of spending it on candy, who got straight A's without my parents having to nag me about homework, and who started working part-time jobs as soon as I turned sixteen. My brother Daniel, two years younger than me, was the opposite—charming, impulsive, and constantly jumping from one grand scheme to another. Don't get me wrong, I loved my brother. But the contrast in how our parents treated us was impossible to ignore. When Daniel wanted to drop out of college to "find himself" through a backpacking trip across Europe, my parents funded the entire adventure. When I worked two jobs to put myself through business school, they called it "good experience" and told me how proud they were that I was so independent. It was always like that—Daniel's dreams required family support, while mine were expected to be self-sufficient. Grandpa Henry—my father's father—was different, though. He and I had a special bond that went beyond the typical grandparent-grandchild relationship. He had built a successful carpentry business from nothing, working with his hands well into his seventies, crafting beautiful furniture that was sought after throughout the state. Some of my favorite childhood memories were the Saturday afternoons I spent in his workshop, learning how to sand wood until it felt like velvet beneath my fingertips, how to measure twice and cut once, how to see the potential in a rough piece of timber. "You've got the eye, Emma," he'd tell me, his voice gruff but warm. "You can see what something could be, not just what it is. That's rare." Daniel never had the patience for the workshop—he'd come in, ask a few questions, get sawdust on his designer shoes, and leave within fifteen minutes. But I soaked up every lesson, every technique, every story Grandpa Henry shared.