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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had an older cousin around my dad's age who I thought was a magician. I knew that one time we ran into him at a hospital while there for blood tests and I thought he went there to do magic for sick kids. Then when I was an older teenager he got divorced from his wife (the way we were related), and the family sort of blacklisted him. He moved to Florida. After college, I moved to Florida, and looked him up. We got together for lunch and I guess now that I was an adult, he felt he could tell me about what had been going on.

My cousin (by blood) had been a total bitch to him, and cut him off from his grandkids and his daughter. We talked a lot that day, and I stayed in touch with him for the entire three years I lived there, getting together about once a month. When my parents came to visit I got them together too.

After I moved, we fell out of touch a little bit, only sometimes talking via Facebook. Then he died. He left me several million dollars as the only member of the family who didn't push him away. It turned out that he invented some medical thing - some tweak thing for xrays? He was able to retire by selling the patent and when he retired he just did magic because that's what he liked.

My life did not change overnight. We didn't want to be stupid about it, so we actually sat on the money for a year to let the shock wear off. [/quote]

Great story! Now that's a real windfall. Totally unexpected money.[/quote]

+1  You and your cousin sound like great people. [/quote]

Agreed. Congrats.

Just wondering...did receiving the inheritance cause any friction in your family? If I understand correctly, you are related to his wife. Were his kids and grandkids included in the will? Of course, a will is a will, his money, his choices, no question. I have a friend whose mom recently passed away and the mom's division of the assets between her and her brother has resulted in brother and sister no longer speaking. Money can be complicated. [/quote]

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