Colleen had filed for the life insurance policy \u2014 $40,000 \u2014 claiming she was the sole beneficiary. She told me our mother had changed it last spring. But last spring my mother could not hold a pen. My notebook, the hospice nurse\u2019s records, and the physician\u2019s notes all proved it. Colleen had forged the signature.
\nI recorded every call. I kept every piece of paper. My attorney played the recordings and presented the notebooks in the settlement conference. The company settled for many times the original amount. Colleen faced consequences.<\/p>\n
I was never the maid. I was the one who stayed. The notebook wasn\u2019t worthless. It was proof that I was my mother\u2019s daughter \u2014 the one who was there until the end.
\nMy sister tried to erase me with one calm, cruel sentence. The dated notebooks I kept for three years told the truth instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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