My sister, Julia, who’s 31, had barely visited them in the past decade. She was always too busy with her social media influencer career that never quite took off. My parents, Karen and Michael, had always favored Julia. She was the pretty one, the outgoing one, the one who could do no wrong. I was just the quiet, studious daughter who worked in accounting.

When my grandparents passed, I was surprised to inherit everything. My parents had expected the inheritance to go to them or at least be split evenly. But my grandparents had been very specific in their will: everything went to me because I was the one who had shown them love and care.