INHERITING A MYSTERY AND OTHER PECULIAR FORTUNES...

I’ve always been fond of those stories where someone inherits a mystery. You know how it goes: our hero or heroine must solve a riddle, or prove his or her worth by accomplishing some monumental task— or both.

Perhaps my attraction to these stories drew my destiny to me. Perhaps.

Perhaps I will never know how, like a pair of heroines in one of my favorite stories, my daughter and I inherited a mystery…

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