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Unexpected Angle
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2026-05-30 12:00:29Mara
I found it on Wednesday morning at 5:15.
I had been in the 1987 draft trust document for two hours. It was the version Eleanor had kept, with the original legacy clause language before Edward Vale had modified it, when something caught my attention on page seven.
The original beneficiary designation.
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