People Are Sharing Their Deepest, Darkest Secrets, And Reading This Felt Like A Rollercoaster

“That’s when they discovered that he’d kept his word and donated all but $300,000 before he died. His will donated most of what was left to charity. My cousins and I were given $10K each, and his will stipulated that money could be taken from the $300K to pay any outstanding student loan obligations for me or my cousins, and that anything left over would go to the same charity. My mom, my aunts, my uncles, his own sister, and her kids were all given $100 each. The sole and only exception to all of this was one of my cousins, who was raising three small children as a widow after her husband was killed in an accident. My grandfather paid off her mortgage before he died and swore her to secrecy. We didn’t find out he’d done that until years later. My secret? He was never conscious while he was in that coma. I recorded those arguments on my phone and played them for him once he was healthy enough to listen. I’m the reason none of them got any of his money. He lied to them so they wouldn’t attack me when they discovered they weren’t getting anything.”

—u/codefyre