Today I commiserated with another gal who had lost her son, her only son, through a freak accident when he was only 17. Then she told me an amazing story about their life.
She worked for an investment firm for about 11 years in New York but every summer her son would go to Puerto Rico to visit his grandmother. He was not happy in New York and pleaded with his Mom to move to Puerto Rico. Eventually she gave up her job and did just that. He was happy but she wasn't, at first, and then she found employment with FEMA and really liked it.
Being a very smart lady, she had invested her earnings in a high yield safe investment for her only son. And when he died it had grown to $600,000! What was also unusual is that he had been very prolific in his youth and at 14 he presented her with her first grandson, and then another granddaughter with a different mother, and then just before he died he had another mom pregnant and she delivered a beautiful daughter in time.
Each of these granchildren have been given a third of this trust and it will provide for them until they are 30 or so! What a story, don't you think?
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