A murmur went through the group. Then Clover raised her hand. “Can I have the turtle fossil?”
“What if we keep the house?” Ophelia said. “Turn it into something. A retreat, maybe. For people who find out they have families they never knew about. A place to land.” ophelia kaan oopsfamily
Mateo put an arm around her. “Welcome to the oops family,” he said softly. “We’re all a little lost. But at least now we’re lost together.” On the final day, they gathered in the ballroom to decide about the estate. The solicitor presented the inventory: the mansion, a modest sum of money, and a collection of oddities—a fossilized turtle, a signed first edition of Moby-Dick , a set of antique dentist’s tools. A murmur went through the group