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Chapter 4 - The Denver house

People called it a mansion.

I called it Dad’s house.

Stone exterior.

Tall windows.

Long driveway.

Too much space.

After Dad died, the property passed to a family real-estate trust.

Under his estate plan, I had the right to occupy it for five years if I wanted.

I did.

Ryan moved in with me.

He did not own it.

Neither did my brothers personally.

The trust did.

That irritated Ryan more than he admitted.

He would say:

“We live in a twenty-million-dollar house and can’t move one wall without trustee approval.”

I would answer:

“We also don’t pay twenty million dollars for it.”

He hated that joke.

Dad’s private study remained locked after his death.

I had the keys.

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Nobody else.

At least, that was what I believed.

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