Despite the will my Karen Aunt thinks that my parents' property belongs to her.

This happened almost five years ago and I just got noticed yesterday that my

entitled Aunt Karen just died and I got a call from her husband asking me to attend

the funeral next weekend and I declined. As did my older brother Mark. Karen was my mother's

oldest sister and constantly interfered in my mother and her children's lives. She never

liked my father and always tried to tell my mother that she made a mistake by marrying him.

She didn't like the name that my parents picked out for my older brother and my great-grandmother

died the day before I was born. When Karen found out they were going to name me after her,

Karen freaked out and said she wanted to name her potential future kid that same name so my

mother couldn't use it. Then she tried to talk her out of it saying it's too old-fashioned and

kids would make fun of me. Which they did but for other reasons. She criticized that both my brothers

and my choice of friends and even complained when I started playing softball because

proper ladies didn't play sports and if her daughter ever tried playing a sports,

she would have her removed from the team. Spoiler alert, she never had children. The day after

my 16th birthday my parents drove on a business trip down to California. I live in Idaho.

My dad said that when they got back they would drive me to the DMV and get my license. He never

did because on that drive to California they hit a patch of ice, spun out, crashed and died.

I was a ruck for some time after that. I didn't even want to attend my high school graduation later

because my parents wouldn't be there. There will split everything evenly between my brother and I.

At my parents funeral, there was a guy named Tim, the production manager that worked with my parents.

He was talking to my brother and my brother told him that in a couple of weeks he would step in

and take over and he was counting on Tim to run my parents business smoothly until then and help

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