That night, after all the well-wishers left the house, Ruth told the children about the diamonds that had been buried beneath the greenhouse. She told them she was going to sell half of them and keep half of them. A quarter of the cash would be for her future and for Marjorie’s future, and a quarter to invest in several irrevocable trusts that would be controlled by Arthur. The other half would be distributed among her children, who now had more money than they ever had before. See? A terrible ending. There would be no growth, no revelation, no coming of age, no plastic hour brought to
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