Breaking News: I am the disowned heir of a wealthy matriarch.
 

I just found out through the grapevine that my mom's mother went into assisted living a while back and sold her home for a nice seven-digit sum.

Why? Why? I come from a long and tightly held family tradition of rural poverty, and I just assumed that she followed that tradition. Out of the blue, I discover an elderly relative - a direct relative, even - with money, and she's the one person who disowned the family before I was born.

I could have been an heir! I would have made a great heir! I look so good in a smoking jacket and pipe! And now I'm just a guy whose rich grandmother dislikes him for even being born. There's no fun in that.

I kind of wish that I had been born out of wedlock so I could claim to be the bastard disowned heir of a wealthy family. That would be a cool story, much better than just being a regular disowned heir.

Let me get $10

I'd give it to you, but I am disowned.

Should have held on to that Dell stock.

If I can talk her into writing just you back into her will, what's it worth to you?

:titus:

prayers sent

I bet she bought it.

wait
Does this have anything to do with needing a thousand dollars to procure that inheritance for you?
If so, we're related.

you probably just got a bogus email fro someone in Sudan.

You can pretend you're me if it'll help. She has no idea what I look like.

I find this quite surprising and humorous. She left the family and disowned them long before I was born. All I knew about her was that she lived in a mobile home in California, so I assumed that she was ... um ... you know ... a stereotypical mobile home dweller. And maybe she was. But she owned the land underneath the mobile home, and apparently it was in Napa County or something.

I really should develop a relationship with her. Maybe I'll go visit. She started a second family that she apparently likes, so I need to figure out how to cut them out...er, integrate myself into the family.

Want to get owned? Go screw with Phobia. He's in a mood.

I knew it.....

Add her and your story to homewrecker.com

I always secretly had a fantasy that I was adopted and had an extremely rich patriarch father that dumped me as a baby. But alas, I look exactly like my dad and have a few of my mothers features. Nope. No deep dark family secrets. Booooring.

Ha! This thread is actually serious. It started out sounding like one of those scam emails from Africa.