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\u201cTo my wife, Amanda Conrad\u2011Thompson, I leave our primary residence at 721 Fifth Avenue, including all furnishings and art contained therein. I also leave to Amanda my controlling shares in Thompson Technologies, my yacht\u2014Eleanor\u2019s Dream\u2014and our vacation properties in the Hamptons and Aspen.\u201d<\/p>\n

A soft intake of breath moved the room like wind over wheat. It was almost everything. Thompson Technologies wasn\u2019t just a company; it was my son\u2019s name in code, then in contracts, then in the crawl on financial news. Those shares were a kingdom.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo my mother, Eleanor Thompson\u2026\u201d I straightened, bracing for something that felt like us\u2014the cedar\u2011shingled Cape house where we traced constellations; the first editions we hunted at auctions; the vintage MG his father kept alive with tenderness and wire. \u201c\u2026I leave the enclosed item to be delivered immediately following the reading.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo my wife, Amanda Conrad\u2011Thompson, I leave our primary residence at 721 Fifth Avenue, including all furnishings and art contained therein. I also leave to Amanda my controlling shares in Thompson Technologies, my yacht\u2014Eleanor\u2019s Dream\u2014and our vacation properties in the Hamptons and Aspen.\u201d A soft intake of breath moved the room like wind over wheat….<\/p>\n

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