The Buyout Went to My Brother, but Mom's Care Came to Me
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The day my mother signed the coastal buyout papers, she handed my brother a check for $412,000 and asked me to move into her rental so I could manage her recovery. I had already spent six months driving her to appointments, organizing her medications, and sleeping beside her after a fall. When I asked what she had set aside for my time, she looked at me as if I had asked to be paid for loving her. My brother called the money a fresh start. I called it the price of the house I grew up in. The harder question was what my mother believed my life was worth now that hers depended on it.
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I sat beside Mom in the attorney's office while Mark stood near the window with the unsigned authorization in his hand.
The attorney, Ms. Bennett, had already reviewed the document. She explained in plain terms what it would allow and what it would not. Mom listened without interruption. Mark turned the paper over and back again.
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