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My Parents Gave My Sister My Trust Fund at Easter Dinner — The Trustee Had Other Plans...

My Parents Gave My Sister My Trust Fund at Easter Dinner — The Trustee Had Other Plans... The ham had been on the table for exactly four minutes when my mother made her announcement.I remember the detail because I'd been watching the steam rise off it, thinking about how I used to love Easter as a child. The egg hunts in the backyard of this very house, my sneakers wet from the morning grass. Grandma Ruth pressing a five-dollar bill into my palm and whispering that I was her favorite, but I shouldn't tell anyone. The way this dining room used to smell like safety — like honey glaze and good coffee and a world that hadn't yet decided what to ask of me.It hadn't felt like safety in a long time.There were thirty-two people packed into my parents' dining room that afternoon. Aunts, uncles, cousins I saw twice a year, my parents' neighbors from down the street who had somehow become permanent fixtures at every family gathering over the past decade. My sister Vivien sat directly across from me in a new dress, her hair professionally blown out, her boyfriend Marcus beside her looking uncomfortable in a collar that was half a size too tight. She'd been unusually quiet since I arrived, which I'd noted and then dismissed as tiredness. That was my first mistake. Vivien is never quiet without a reason.