He stated that he had personally witnessed the condition of my injury and believed my mother’s treatment of me was cruel and deeply dishonest. The room seemed to disappear when I reached the part where he explained why he was leaving the duplex and the account to me.
“She is the only one who sat with me in the dark without asking me what I was going to leave behind,” the letter stated clearly. He felt that I was the only person who treated him like a human being instead of a problem that needed to be solved.
My mother made a small and choked sound of fury before standing up to tell the judge that the letter was a complete fabrication. “He loved me more than her, and I was the one who gave up my life to make sure he was fed and washed,” she cried out.
The judge warned her to be careful but she was no longer interested in playing a strategy of silence or following the rules of the court. She shouted that the judge had no idea what she had sacrificed for that man over the years while I was gone and away.