Summary

Mary’s shock at her grandmother’s accusations only grew. She was heartbroken that the only thing that seemed to matter was how poor her father was at the time of his death. Mary gives birth to a baby named William with her female life partner, and the baby soon falls ill. The baby recovered, and Mary dropped the issue of a possible lawsuit to receive her inheritance. Mary’s grandmother died in the fall of 2000, and if Mary “had known she was sick, I think I would have tried to see her, but the fact that she hadn’t asked to see me clarified just how easy it had been for us to let each other go. We had never spoken after that last phone conversation, just as I had not spoken again to Robert, Donald, Maryanne, or Elizabeth. It had never...