My father’s will was a printed email with the subject line: “MY WILL!!! PLEASE PRINT!!!!” in bold at the top of the page he’d gotten notarized without witnesses. Unsurprisingly, the email, which instructed that his condo be left to me, his only child, wasn’t a valid legal document. I looked up “what qualifies as a legal will” before he died, and took the Google results at face value. Apparently my father’s disdain for bureaucracy was something I’d inherited.

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