Chapter 8: Thirty-Nine Years on Record
After the holiday, Jacob filed the case.
Harold hired a retired lawyer named Peter Grant. At the first mediation, Peter tried to call the affair "mutual assistance between older neighbors." Jacob laid out the photos, transfers, shared household evidence, witness statements, Nora's signed statement,...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Lock That Would Not Turn
2. Chapter 2: No Place Left for Margaret
3. Chapter 3: The Lawyer at the Door
4. Chapter 4: Dumplings on the Floor
5. Chapter 5: The Empty Jewelry Box
6. Chapter 6: The Price of the Bangle
7. Chapter 7: New Year at the Same Table
8. Chapter 8: Thirty-Nine Years on Record
9. Chapter 9: A Home in Margaret Wells's Name
10. Chapter 10: The Money That Did Not Come Back
11. Chapter 11: The Photo in Harold's Wallet
12. Chapter 12: No More Mrs. Bennett
13. Chapter 13: Everything Just Right
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