Brenda’s lawyer Ray asserted: “ Sam wants everything, the whole island, both houses on it. Brenda likes her own way too.”
Interminable, tough negotiations over the island followed, until Brenda surprised everyone: “I only want daddy’s ashes. Sam’s holding them. For myself.”
Sam accepted: “Gino, would you walk the urn the blocks to Ray’s office?”
“Nothing easy about this family,” surmised Gino, dad’s bulky, ornate urn growing heavier with each burdensome step. “Wouldn’t more love have lightened everyone’s load?”