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I never expected my life to be completely upended by the reading of my late mother’s will. Sitting in the lawyer’s office, the smell of old paper thick in the air, I listened as he calmly delivered a revelation that left me speechless: in order to inherit my mother’s estate, I had to take custody of a twelve-year-old girl I had never heard of. “You’ll receive the house and assets,” the lawyer said, “but only after serving six months as Violet’s legal guardian. The estate payments will be issued in installments—every six months, contingent on your continued care.” “Who is…