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[quote=Anonymous]Well right now, we don't know if Thelma owed her sister anything for the house.  That would certainly affect how she needed to distribute the assets.

Even if she didn't have to repay a debt on the house to Larla's grandmother, over the course of a lifetime, Mary received far, far more than Larla, and that's as it should be.  Thelma delivered there.  But as Thelma was facing her mortality, maybe she felt she needed to do more for her goddaughter.  While religious doctrine stipulates the minimum responsibilities for godparents, no one stands in the way if a godparent wants to do more.  Some people just want to go above and beyond.  Cultural expectations also play a role in this family.  
  
Faced with an argumentive and entitled daughter who seemed to give her endless grief (see OP's post on p.4) while given every advantage and a generous allowance well into adulthood, and a struggling and hard-working goddaughter at about the same age as as Thelma was when her parents died, leaving her alone to make her way in the world, I can see why Thelma may have wanted to give her a hand up in this world.

Some of us do not think Thelma's behavior is strange or unusual at all.  [/quote]

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